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ANALECTS
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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
Sense 1
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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