epitome

[E*pit·o*me]

If you're talking about a typical example of something, call it the epitome. The cartoon character Garfield is the epitome of the fat, lazy, food obsessed cat.

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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.

Noun
a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father"

Noun
a brief abstract (as of an article or book)


n.
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.

n.
A compact or condensed representation of anything.


Epitome

E*pit"o*me , n.; pl. Epitomes . [L., fr. Gr. a surface incision, also, and abridgment, fr. to cut into, cut short; upon + to cut: cf. F. '82pitome. 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.
[An] epitome of the contents of a very large book.
2. A compact or condensed representation of anything.
An epitome of English fashionable life.
A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome.
Syn. -- Abridgement; compendium; compend; abstract; synopsis; abbreviature. See Abridgment.

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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Usage Examples

It is pretty amazing. My parents, who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. - who would have thought that they would have American kids on the Olympic team? I think that's the epitome of the Olympic dream.

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Other Usage Examples

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

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