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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
eclectic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
eclectic (=liking a wide variety of different things)
▪ My tastes are very eclectic.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
mix
▪ Yet for all its compact cuteness, the Fulvia is an eclectic mix of technologies.
▪ Opera is known for attracting an eclectic mix of the powerful, the hip and the happening.
▪ The six books are an eclectic mix from established and new writers who between them offer a challenging spectrum of contemporary writing.
▪ The decor is an eclectic mix of items loosely associated with fishing and writing.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The album features an eclectic collection of old blues, jazz, and romantic pop standards.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And she uses an eclectic range of procedures, from experiments and questionnaires to semi-structured and counselling interviews.
▪ But after a summer in Trinidad, he realized he had only scratched the surface of the eclectic and complex belief system.
▪ Opera is known for attracting an eclectic mix of the powerful, the hip and the happening.
▪ That choice makes the book eclectic rather than encyclopedic.
▪ The pub has one of those eccentrically eclectic menus that you might associate with lesser pub food.
▪ The selection is both practical and literary, subjective and eclectic.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eclectic

Eclectic \Ec*lec"tic\, n. One who follows an eclectic method.

Eclectic

Eclectic \Ec*lec"tic\, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to pick out, choose out: cf. F. ['e]clectique. See Eclogue, and cf. Elect.]

  1. Selecting; choosing (what is true or excellent in doctrines, opinions, etc.) from various sources or systems; as, an eclectic philosopher.

  2. Consisting, or made up, of what is chosen or selected; as, an eclectic method; an eclectic magazine.

    Eclectic physician, one of a class of practitioners of medicine, who select their modes of practice and medicines from all schools; formerly, sometimes the same as botanic physician. [U.S.]

    Eclectic school. (Paint.) See Bolognese school, under Bolognese.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
eclectic

1680s, "not confined to or following any one model or system," originally in reference to ancient philosophers who selected doctrines from every system; from French eclectique (1650s), from Greek eklektikos "selective," literally "picking out," from eklektos "selected," from eklegein "pick out, select," from ek "out" (see ex-) + legein "gather, choose" (see lecture (n.)). Broader sense of "borrowed from diverse sources" is first recorded 1847. As a noun from 1817.

Wiktionary
eclectic

a. 1 Selecting a mixture of what appears to be best of various doctrines, methods or styles. 2 unrelated and unspecialized; heterogeneous. n. Someone who selects according to the eclectic method.

WordNet
eclectic

adj. selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas

eclectic

n. someone who selects according to the eclectic method [syn: eclecticist]

Gazetteer
Eclectic, AL -- U.S. town in Alabama
Population (2000): 1037
Housing Units (2000): 459
Land area (2000): 4.238691 sq. miles (10.978158 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.045591 sq. miles (0.118081 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.284282 sq. miles (11.096239 sq. km)
FIPS code: 22816
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 32.641285 N, 86.038571 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 36024
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
Eclectic

'''Eclectic ''' may refer to:

  • Eclectic, Approach, an approach to education
  • Eclecticism, a philosophical movement, artistic movement, etc.
    • Eclecticism in art
    • Eclecticism in music
  • Eclectic, Alabama, a village of about 1,000 people in central Alabama
  • Eclectic Discs, a record label renamed to Esoteric Recordings
  • Eclectic Medicine, a combination of herbalism, physical therapies, and the use of other substances in the 19th century
  • Eclectic Method, name of an audio-visual remix act
  • Eclectic paradigm, an economic theory, published by John H.Dunning in 1980
  • Eclectic Shorthand, or cross shorthand, a system of shorthand in the English language, used some during the 19th century
  • Eclectic Society (Christian), an English missionary and anti-slavery society, founded in London in 1783
  • Eclectic Society (fraternity), an American college fraternity, Phi Nu Theta, founded at Wesleyan University in 1838
  • Morning Becomes Eclectic, a radio program, transmitted from Santa Monica, California
  • Sounds Eclectic, a radio program
  • Eclectic Psychotherapy see Integrative Psychotherapy
  • Eclectic Reel, a collection of music by Italian composer Stefano Lentini
  • The Eclectics, the Australian all-female band
  • The album Eclectic by Eric Johnson and Mike Stern
Eclectic (album)

Eclectic is Eric Johnson's seventh studio album and first album with fellow artist Mike Stern, released on October 27, 2014. It is Johnson's first studio release since his 2010 album Up Close. The album features guest appearances by Malford Milligan and Christopher Cross.

Usage examples of "eclectic".

The decor was stylish to a point where it transcended style and entered the realms of perspicuous harmony, shunning grandiloquent ornamentation in favour of a visual concinnity, garnered from aesthetic principles, which combined the austerity of Bauhaus and ebullience of Burges14 into an eclectic mix before stripping them down to their fundamental essentials, to create an effect which was almost aphoristic, in that it could be experienced but never completely expressed.

Sarabande had eclectic tastes, but she was easily bored, especially when biz awaited.

Just an eclectic and healthy collection of cichlids and labyrinthine fish.

Not all the dishes were from Indiain fact, the party would have a rather eclectic mix of Indian, British, and French dishes, for Gopal was trading lessons in Indian cuisine for those in Continental cooking with an expatriate Parisian cook he had come to be acquainted with.

Freudianity pitted against Jungism, orthodoxy against orthodoxy, and both against the eclectic Modernism which is gradually taking their place.

Italy--imitating not the best models either, but the Mannerists, the Eclectics, and the Roman painters of the Decadence.

The artwork was eclectic, a mix of the best of many periods and hands, including several African masks and a small stone figure that, to her unschooled eye, looked pre-Columbian.

The Eclectic Medical University reported the use of but six small animals in its research work.

The Naturalists were, perhaps, more firmly based upon nature than the Bolognese Eclectics.

Italy, a diligent student of the great Italians, especially the Venetians, Correggio, and the Bolognese Eclectics.

With rare insight and rarer taste he discountenanced the prevalent Merovingian hand, and substituted in eclectic hand, known as the Carolingian Minuscule, which way still be regarded as a model of clearness and elegance.

She danced through an eclectic melange of sound that comfortably encompassed Offenbach and Elton John.

Like an eclectic Greek he drew from all sources, and then blended and united these features in a peculiar style of his own and stamped them with his peculiar Raphaelesque stamp.

At first Rhodine was noticeably uncomfortable with all the attention she was receiving from the rest of the audience, a very eclectic group indeed.

Lou was married to a Chinese woman who did the cooking, so the place served an eclectic menu of egg rolls, chow mein, shaslik, rice pilaf, hot and sour soup, baklava and fortune cookies.