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/kəmpˈɛndiəm/
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[ US /kəmˈpɛndiəm/ ]
[ US /kəmˈpɛndiəm/ ]
NOUN
- a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work
- a publication containing a variety of works
How To Use compendium In A Sentence
- Actually the great bit about the DVD compendium isn't the re-watching; it's watching six episodes back to back in little more than two hours.
- A compendium of greatest hits, plus a poetic "birl" (spin) from Seamus Heaney, it seems to be modelled on the Burns night, with O'Hagan, a lively novelist and cultural commentator, playing MC. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
- He does recall being presented with a compendium of his most famous sayings. Times, Sunday Times
- A compendium of wise and worldly sentences can provide something akin to a course of education. The Times Literary Supplement
- While the catalogue is a compendium of information on the artist and her work, it does not devote sufficient attention to one of the most extraordinary aspects of the exhibition.
- May 11, 2009 at 9:31 pm the compendium have everything that ever had the title rising star on te cover page. This Week on the Major Spoilers Podcast: Rising Stars | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
- Nor is it just a compendium of technical information. Times, Sunday Times
- An odd bestiary, or, A compendium of instructive and entertaining descriptions of animals: Culled from five centuries of travelers 'accounts, natural histories, ... famous and obscure, arranged as an abecedary by Alan James Robinson 120th Tournament of Roses Parade: An Intimate Photographic Essay
- Despite its wide range and the huge number of songs it examines it is, at this stage, a sampler rather than a compendium.
- Carvel, "within their limits, are works of art;" The Inside of the Cup "is no more than a compendium of paralogy, as silly and smattering as a speech by William Jennings Bryan or a shocker by Jane Addams. A Book of Prefaces