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epitome

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
13
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/əˈpɪt.ə.mi/ (UK)
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/əˈpɪt.ə.mi/ (UK) · /ɪˈpɪt.ə.mi/ (UK) · /ˈɛpɪtoʊm/ (UK) · /ˈɛ.pɪ.ʈə.mi/ · /ˌɛ.pɪˌʈom/

Definition of epitome

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. The embodiment or encapsulation of a class of items.
    “This is a poore Epitome of yours, / Which by th'interpretation of full time, / May ſhew like all your ſelfe.”
    “But first I took up Ayesha's kirtle and the gauzy scarf with which she had been wont to hide her dazzling loveliness from the eyes of men, and, averting my head so that I might not look upon it, covered up that dreadful relic of the glorious dead, that shocking epitome of human beauty and human life.”
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noun

  1. The embodiment or encapsulation of a class of items.
    “This is a poore Epitome of yours, / Which by th'interpretation of full time, / May ſhew like all your ſelfe.”
    “But first I took up Ayesha's kirtle and the gauzy scarf with which she had been wont to hide her dazzling loveliness from the eyes of men, and, averting my head so that I might not look upon it, covered up that dreadful relic of the glorious dead, that shocking epitome of human beauty and human life.”
  2. A representative example.
    “The minute they see me, fear me / I'm the epitome of "public enemy"”
  3. The height; the best; the most vivid.
    “He looks the very epitome of fright: I do not think he could eat one of those apples, if it were given him.”
  4. A brief summary of a text.

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Etymology

From Middle French, from Latin epitomē, from Ancient Greek ἐπιτομή (epitomḗ, “an abridgment, also a surface-incision”), from ἐπιτέμνω (epitémnō, “to cut upon the surface, cut short, abridge”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “up”) + τέμνω (témnō, “to cut”).

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