epitome
IPA: ɪpˈɪtʌmi
noun
- The embodiment or encapsulation of a class of items.
- A representative example.
- The height; the best; the most vivid.
- A brief summary of a text.
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Examples of "epitome" in Sentences
- Vocabulary What is the epitome of the word epitome?
- And that night and the next and the next, I wrote "Gentleman Adventurers," which the critics called the epitome of all that is balladesque.
- The epitome was the Insull group, headquartered in Chicago but with tentacles extending into thirty states—an unsettling octopus of capital and influence.
- This method is popular in diners across the nation, but the epitome is the Shake Shack with three locations in NYC and a cult following that forms long lines.
- THE Bible contains the history of the human race in epitome; is the mirror in which every age and every generation may see reflected its own features and complexion.
- But when preparing my Mss. for print I found the text incomplete, many of the stories being given in epitome and not a few ruthlessly mutilated with head or feet wanting.
- If boutique isn't your preference, you may like the second hotel, Le Royal Monceau. 149 rooms and designed by Phillippe Stark, this hotel is what I'd call the epitome of Parisian luxury.
- Epicycles worked on paper, sort of, but they did a much better job at keeping astronomers respectable and their models intact than at describing the actual movements of heavenly bodies; they have come to be known as the epitome of bad science.
- Not even Loren Pierce's railing commentary on the pastor's introduction of an outlandish word like "epitome" -- clearly forbidden by the Discipline's injunction to plain language understood of the people -- availed to sap the satisfaction of the majority.
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