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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Epitome (0.01821 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to Epitome.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: epitome
ringkasan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: epitome
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)
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Epitome
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.
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[An] epitome of the contents of a very large book.
--Sydney
Smith.
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2. A compact or condensed representation of anything;
something possessing conspicuously or to a high degree the
qualities of a class.
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An epitome of English fashionable life. --Carlyle.
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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.
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