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Definition of anecdote : 1. A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.
2. Unpublished narratives.

Synonyms:

relation, narration, tall tale, words, study atstory, incident

docket, album, history, catalog, chronicle, record, narrative, log, register, account, yearbook, autobiography, cashbook, recital, biography, scrapbook, book, index, newspaper, archive, inventory, bank-book, memorandum, chronology, statement, diary, enumeration, daybook, notebook, description, memo, calendar, journal, newsletter, ledger, epic

portrayal, summary, article, treatise, report, monograph, memoir, telling, recounting, table

myth, yarn, allegory, fiction, story, prosaicness, recount, novella, scenario, plainness, serial, legend, prose, novel, episode, reminiscence, reading matter, romance, saga, short story, retelling, parable, storyline, fable, plot, tale

Usage examples:

• Two long perfect days they had spent on the sea, with an old fisherman, full of anecdote, and his young grandson to sail the boat. - "Winding Paths", Gertrude Page.
• It had reference to an anecdote Dr. Jessop had just been telling him- about a little girl, one of our doctor's patients, who in some passionate struggle had hurt herself very much with a knife. - "John Halifax, Gentleman", Dinah Maria Mulock Craik.
• And whenever a light or ludicrous anecdote is proper to be recorded, it is generally better to throw it into a note, than to run the hazard of becoming too familiar. - "The Grammar of English Grammars", Goold Brown.