Meaning & use
anecdote
A short, entertaining story about a real person or event, often told to illustrate a point.
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The professor opened her lecture with an anecdote about her first failed experiment.
He kept the guests laughing with anecdotes from his years working on cruise ships.
A note on using this word
An anecdote is personal and usually brief; unlike statistics, it offers only limited evidence for a general claim.
Words with a similar meaning
storytale
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