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How to pronounce chrestomathy in English?

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Type of excerpt, excerption, extract, selection

Examples of chrestomathy

chrestomathy
Today Tomfoolery, a chrestomathy of 28 Lehrer hits, seems about as audacious as a glass of eggnog.
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It is used by analogy to a linguistic chrestomathy.
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A Coptic grammar, with chrestomathy and glossary.
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These stories are recorded in Deeti's pictures as well as in the elaborate chrestomathy in which Neel traces the languages he hears on board.
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Rosetta Code is a wiki-based programming chrestomathy website with solutions to various programming problems in many different programming languages.
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His Collection of Florid Expressions, a sort of anthology or chrestomathy attributed to him by the Suda, is lost, but elements of it survive in later lexica.
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More examples
  • A selection of passages from different authors that is compiled as an aid in learning a language
  • A Chrestomathy is a retrospective two-CD compilation of songs by Dave Van Ronk released in 1992.
  • (chrestomathic) That has a practical use
  • A collection of literary passages selected to show a subject matter in breadth