anecdotist


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an·ec·dot·ist

 (ăn′ĭk-dō′tĭst)
n.
One who tells, collects, or publishes anecdotes.
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an•ec•dot•ist

(ˈæn ɪkˌdoʊ tɪst)

also an•ec•do•tal•ist

(ˌæn ɪkˈdoʊ tl ɪst)

n.
a collector or teller of anecdotes.
[1830–40]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.anecdotist - a person skilled in telling anecdotesanecdotist - a person skilled in telling anecdotes
raconteur
narrator, storyteller, teller - someone who tells a story
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If he could have dictated all the conditions, he would have chosen the evenings when Newland was out; not because the young man was uncongenial to him (the two got on capitally at their club) but because the old anecdotist sometimes felt, on Newland's part, a tendency to weigh his evidence that the ladies of the family never showed.
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"He was a brilliant anecdotist and when you start stringing those anecdotes together you get a picture of a life, a life that covered almost threequarters of a century."
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Dennis Must's third short story compendium, Going Dark, presents an anecdotist a la F.
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