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ANALECTS

Dictionary entry overview: What does analects mean?

• ANALECTS (noun)
The noun ANALECTS has 1 sense:

1. a collection of excerpts from a literary work

Familiarity information: ANALECTS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ANALECTS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A collection of excerpts from a literary work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

analecta; analects

Hypernyms ("analects" is a kind of...):

excerpt; excerption; extract; selection (a passage selected from a larger work)

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