a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident
n. A short account of an interesting or humorous incident. n. Secret or hitherto undivulged particulars of history or biography. n. plural Secret history; facts relating to secret or private affairs, as of governments or of individuals: often used (commonly in the form anecdota) as the title of works treating of such matters.
An anecdote is a brief, revealing account of an individual person or an incident: "a story with a point," such as to communicate an abstract idea about a person, place, or thing through the concrete details of a short narrative or to characterize by delineating a specific quirk or trait.
