A Topical Dictionary: Search for epitome

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English

Pronunciation

IPA: /iˈpɪtəmi/,
An audio transcript can be found at en-us-epitome.ogg

Noun

In the Context of The embodiment or encapsulation of.
In the Context of A representative example.
In the Context of The height; the best.
In the Context of A brief summary.

Usage notes

The sense ‘the height, the best’ is considered incorrect by some.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

Dutch: {{t|nl|verwezenlijking|f}}, {{t-|nl|belichaming|f}}, {{t|nl|personificatie|f}}
German: {{t|nl|Verkörperlichung|f}}

Finnish: ruumiillistuma, malliesimerkki

Dutch: {{t|nl|toppunt|n}}

Dutch: {{t+|nl|samenvatting|f}}, {{t-|nl|synopsis|f}}, {{t|nl|uittreksel|n}}, {{t-|nl|excerpt|n}}
Finnish: ,
French: tout craché

German: Abriss

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Epitome \E*pit"o*me\, n.; pl. Epitomes. [L., fr. Gr. ? a
surface incision, also, and abridgment, fr. ? to cut into,
cut short; 'epi` upon + te`mnein to cut: cf. F. ['e]pitome.
See Tome.]
1. A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced
within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a
brief summary; an abridgement.
[1913 Webster]

[An] epitome of the contents of a very large book.
--Sydney
Smith.
[1913 Webster]

2. A compact or condensed representation of anything;
something possessing conspicuously or to a high degree the
qualities of a class.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

An epitome of English fashionable life. --Carlyle.
[1913 Webster]

A man so various that he seemed to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome. --Dryden.

Syn: Abridgement; compendium; compend; abstract; synopsis;
abbreviature. See Abridgment.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet epitome
n 1: a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good
breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the
good father" [syn: prototype, paradigm, image]
2: a brief abstract (as of an article or book)

Moby Dictionary
abbreviation , abbreviature , abrege , abridgement , abridgment ,
abstract , antetype , antitype , apocope , archetype , biotype ,
breviary , brief , capsule , classic example , compend , compendium ,
compression , condensation , condensed version , conspectus ,
contraction , criterion , curtailment , digest , draft , elision ,
ellipsis , embodiment , essence , exemplar , foreshortening , fugleman ,
fugler , genotype , head , imitatee , last word , lead , mirror , model ,
original , outline , overview , pandect , paradigm , pattern ,
personification , precedent , precis , prototype , quintessence , recap ,
recapitulation , reduction , representative , resume , retrenchment ,
review , rubric , rule , shortened version , shortening , skeleton ,
sketch , standard , sum , summary , summation , summing-up , survey ,
syllabus , syncope , synopsis , telescoping , thumbnail sketch ,
topical outline , truncation , type , type species , type specimen ,
typical example , ultimate , urtext