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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a standard or typical example;
- Example: "he is the prototype of good breeding"
- Example: "he provided America with an image of the good father"
[syn: prototype, paradigm, epitome, image]

2. a brief abstract (as of an article or book); 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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, epitome, image]
    2: a brief abstract (as of an article or book)