epitome
epitome is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A compact or condensed representation of anything. An epitome of English fashionable life. Carlyle. A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Dryden. See Abridgment.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abbreviate
- abbreviation
- abbreviature
- abridge
- abridgment
- abstract
- album
- analecta
- analectic
- analysis
- and
- anthology
- apercu
- book
- brevity
- brief
- briefly
- close
- collect
- collectanea
- come
- comes
- commonplace
- compact
- compend
- compendious
- compendium
- compilation
- compile
- compress
- compressed
- compression
- concise
- concisely
- conciseness
- condense
- conspectus
- contents
- contraction
- crisp
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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