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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. short account of an incident (especially a biographical one);


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Anecdote \An"ec*dote\, n. [F. anecdote, fr. Gr. ? not published; 'an priv. + ? given out, ? to give out, to publish; ? out + ? to give. See Dose, n.] 1. pl. Unpublished narratives. --Burke. [1913 Webster] 2. A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life. [1913 Webster] Anecdotic
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

anecdote n 1: short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)