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/ɪpˈɪtəmi/ Listen

noun

Epitome n. (pl. epitomes)

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."

A compact or condensed representation of anything; something possessing conspicuously or to a high degree the qualities of a class. "An epitome of English fashionable life." "A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome."

Synonyms: Abridgement; compendium; compend; abstract; synopsis; abbreviature. See Abridgment.

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Etymology of 'Epitome'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Epitome" Quotes from Famous Books

... to "know thyself" is the epitome of wisdom for the community as it is for the individual. The first step in this process of self-acquaintance is to secure an accurate knowledge of the kinds of people which compose the community, and how its past is ...

— The Farmer and His Community • Dwight Sanderson

... came to the farm-house where they had been born, the sun was sinking behind the ragged spears of the mountain-top, and its last fires were mirrored in the lake whose name was like an epitome of their lives—Forsaken. ...

— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck

... gate. They were at the window which never passes from my eyes. I could not see my dear sister's face, for she was bending over my mother, pointing me out to her, and telling her to wave her hand and smile, because I liked it so. That action was an epitome of my sister's life. ...

— Margaret Ogilvy • James M. Barrie

... suffering had so exhausted Louis that he could scarcely speak, and seemed hardly conscious who was present. All his faculties were absorbed in the one wish, which late in the evening was granted. The scene was like an epitome of his life—the large irregular room, cumbered with the disorderly apparatus of all his multifarious pursuits, while there he lay on his little narrow iron bed, his features so fair and colourless as to be strangely like his mother's marble effigy—his eyes closed, ...

— Dynevor Terrace (Vol. I) - or, The Clue of Life • Charlotte M. Yonge

... An old friend of Italy coming back to her finds an easy waking for dormant memories. Every object is a reminder and every reminder a thrill. Half an hour after my arrival, as I stood at my window, which overhung the great square, I found the scene, within and without, a rough epitome of every pleasure and every impression I had formerly gathered from Italy: the balcony and the Venetian-blind, the cool floor of speckled concrete, the lavish delusions of frescoed wall and ceiling, the broad divan framed ...

— Italian Hours • Henry James

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