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ANALECTA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does analecta mean?
• ANALECTA (noun)
The noun ANALECTA has 1 sense:
1. a collection of excerpts from a literary work
Familiarity information: ANALECTA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A collection of excerpts from a literary work
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
analecta; analects
Hypernyms ("analecta" is a kind of...):
excerpt; excerption; extract; selection (a passage selected from a larger work)
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