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US
/ɪˈpɪtəmi/
]
[ UK /ɪpˈɪtəmˌi/ ]
[ UK /ɪpˈɪtəmˌi/ ]
NOUN
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a standard or typical example
he provided America with an image of the good father
he is the prototype of good breeding - a brief abstract (as of an article or book)
How To Use epitome In A Sentence
- Confident, tanned and talkative, he looked the epitome of the champion he longs to be again. Times, Sunday Times
- a purgation, that is, by way of Epitome, to cut all ouer much away. The Scholemaster
- Scrooge has been immortalised in the English language as the epitome of miserliness and meanness of spirit.
- Keep the summer fires burning and clasp tightly the beauty products that are the epitome of escapes to hot climes. Times, Sunday Times
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- 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. Moses and Joshua
- 'Phiz' for Martin Chuzzlewit this frontispiece, which is an epitome of the salient characters and scenes in the novel, was sold for L35. Charles Dickens and Music
- It was full of monuments to the dependents of peers, in which the peers figured very largely and the dependents fared humbly -- the epitome of flunkeydom. A Student in Arms Second Series
- My room was the epitome of elegance. Times, Sunday Times
- She's sleek, elegant, stylish and the epitome of New York City chic.