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 Unpublished narratives.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)