exemplar
Etymology 1
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Etymology 1
From Latin exemplar, from Latin exemplum.
Pronunciation Nounexemplar (plural exemplars)
- Something fit to be imitated; an ideal, a model.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:model
- A role model.
- Something typical or representative of a class; an example that typifies.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:exemplar
- A pattern after which others should be made; an archetype.
- A well known usage of a scientific theory.
- A handwritten manuscript used by a scribe to make a handwritten copy; the original copy of what gets multiply reproduced in a copy machine.
- A copy of a book or piece of writing.
- French: exemple
- German: Urschrift
- Russian: экземпля́р
From French exemplaire, and its source, Latin exemplāris.
Adjectiveexemplar
- (obsolete) Exemplary.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC ↗:
- In our age we have no patterne of motherly affection more exemplare, than yours.
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