Anecdote and Life

Anecdote

Anecdote noun - A brief account of something interesting that happened especially to one personally.

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Life and anecdote are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Life" instead a noun "Anecdote".

Nearby Words: anecdotal, anecdotic

Life noun - A history of a person's life.

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Anecdote and life are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Anecdote" instead a noun "Life".

Nearby Words: lifeless, lifetime, lifer, lifeline

old	old anecdote	old life
good	good anecdote	good life
long	long anecdote	long life
short	short anecdote	short life
Other adjectives: perfect, original, entire, real, terrible, interesting, criminal, personal, early, last.

There is a quite famous anecdote about Doctor Joseph Bell who was supposedly the real life inspiration for Sherlock Holmes.

Source: Clue, Evidence, and a Smoking Gun
Washington Irving made up the anecdote to glorify Washington's well-known real life honesty.

Source: Useful Notes / George Washington
This joke is also told as an anecdote about some real-life clowns, notably Joe Grimaldi and Gaspard-Baptiste Debureau.

Source: Sad Clown

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