English-Thai Dictionary

epitome

N การ สรุป (คำ ทางการ  การ สรุป ใจความสำคัญ  kan-sa-rub

 

epitome

N ตัวอย่าง ที่ ชัดเจน  tua-yang-ti-chad-jan

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EPITOME, EPITOMY

n.[Gr. to cut, a cutting, a section. ] An abridgment; a brief summary or abstract of any book or writing; a compendium containing the substance or principal matters of a book. Epitomes are helpful to the memory.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

EPITOME

E *pit "o *me, n.; pl. Epitomes. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. épitome. 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. [An ] epitome of the contents of a very large book. Sydney Smith.

 

2. A compact or condensed representation of anything. An epitome of English fashionable life. Carlyle. 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

epitome

e pit o me |iˈpitəmē əˈpɪdəmi | ▶noun 1 (the epitome of ) a person or thing that is a perfect example of a particular quality or type: she looked the epitome of elegance and good taste. 2 a summary of a written work; an abstract. • archaic a thing representing something else in miniature. DERIVATIVES e pit o mist |-mist |noun ORIGIN early 16th cent.: via Latin from Greek epitomē, from epitemnein ‘abridge, ’ from epi ‘in addition ’ + temnein ‘to cut. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

epitome

epitome |ɪˈpɪtəmi, ɛ- | ▶noun 1 (the epitome of ) a person or thing that is a perfect example of a particular quality or type: she looked the epitome of elegance and good taste. 2 a summary of a written work; an abstract. • archaic a thing representing something else in miniature. DERIVATIVES epitomist noun ORIGIN early 16th cent.: via Latin from Greek epitomē, from epitemnein ‘abridge ’, from epi ‘in addition ’ + temnein ‘to cut ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

epitome

epitome noun the sanatorium there is the epitome of Modernist hospital design: personification, embodiment, incarnation, paragon; essence, quintessence, archetype, paradigm; exemplar, model, soul, example; height.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

epitome

epitome noun 1 he was the epitome of conservative respectability: personification, embodiment, incarnation, paragon; essence, quintessence, archetype, paradigm, typification, type; exemplar, definitive example, prototype; representation, model, soul, example, byword, classic example /case; acme, ultimate, zenith, height; rare avatar. 2 an epitome of a larger work: summary, abstract, synopsis, precis, résumé, outline, digest, recapitulation, summation, compendium, potted version; abridgement, abbreviation, condensation; N. Amer. wrap-up; archaic argument, summa; rare conspectus. ANTONYMS complete version, full text.

 

Duden Dictionary

Epitome

Epi to me Substantiv, feminin , die |Ep i tome |die Epitome; Genitiv: der Epitome, Plural: die Epitomen griechisch-lateinisch Auszug aus einem Schriftwerk; wissenschaftlicher oder geschichtlicher Abriss in der altrömischen und humanistischen Literatur

 

Spanish Dictionary

epítome

epítome nombre masculino 1 Resumen de una obra extensa en el que se exponen las ideas o las nociones fundamentales del tema que trata esta .SINÓNIMO compendio, resumen .2 lit Figura retórica de construcción que consiste en la repetición de las primeras palabras de un discurso durante su exposición o al final del mismo con el fin de lograr una mayor claridad de lo dicho .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

epitome

e pit o me /ɪpɪ́təmi /名詞 C 1 (重要な特徴を表す )縮図 ; 典型 ▸ an epitome of modern life 現代生活の縮図 2 (本 論文 報告などの )概要, 摘要, 要約 .