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Also found in: Thesaurus, Financial, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. (ĭ-pĭt′ə-mē)n.1. A representative or perfect example of a class or type: He is seen ... as the epitome of the hawkish, right-of-center intellectual (Paul Kennedy).2. A brief summary, as of a book or article; an abstract.Latin epitomē, a summary, from Greek, an abridgment, from epitemnein, to cut short : epi-, epi- + temnein, to cut; see tem- in Indo-European roots.American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. (ɪˈpɪtəmɪ) n1. a typical example of a characteristic or class; embodiment; personification: he is the epitome of sloth. 2. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a summary of a written work; abstractC16: via Latin from Greek epitomē, from epitemnein to abridge, from epi- + temnein to cut epitomical, ˌepiˈtomic adjCollins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 (ɪˈpɪt ə mi) n. 1. a person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class; embodiment: She is the epitome of kindness. 2. a condensed account, as of a literary work; abstract. 1520–30; < Latin epitomē abridgment < Greek epitomḗ abridgment, surface incision. See epi-, -tome ep•i•tom•i•cal (ˌɛp ɪˈtɒm ɪ kəl) ep'i•tom′ic, adj. Random House Kernerman Websters College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.something representative as a fine example of the whole group of things to which it belongs. See also books.See also: Representation-Ologies & -Isms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Noun1.epitome - a standard or typical example; he is the prototype of good breeding; he provided America with an image of the good fatherprototype, paradigm, imageexample, model - a representative form or pattern; I profited from his exampleconcentrate - a concentrated example of something; the concentrate of contemporary despairimago - (psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood2.epitome - a brief abstract (as of an article or book)Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002noun The American Heritage® Rogets Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. incarnazionepersonificareprototiporiassuntocompendiobelichamingexcerptpersonificatiesamenvattingsynopsisCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005 ɪˈpɪtəmi nthe epitome of → la quintessence deCollins EnglishFrench Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005 n (of virtue, wisdom etc) → Inbegriff m (→ of +gen, → an +dat) (rare, of book) → Epitome f (spec)Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995 Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, or visit the webmasters page for free fun content. Link to this page: Fragment #1 -- Photius, Epitome of the Chrestomathy of Proclus: The Epic Cycle begins with the fabled union of Heaven and Earth, by which they make three hundred-handed sons and three Cyclopes to be born to him.In the first part the greatest freedom has been used in reducing the narration into a narrow compass, so that it is by no means a translation but an epitome, in which, whether everything either useful or entertaining be comprised, the compiler is least qualified to determine.--The pliant, persuasive body, the dancer, whose symbol and epitome is the self-enjoying soul.Brownings chosen subject-matter: Every man is for him an epitome of the universe, a centre of creation. It is always the particular soul, and the particular act or episode, as the flower of the particular soul--the act or episode by which its quality comes to the test--in which he interests us.A long time dead was his epitome of that phase of speculation.It is an epitome, maam, said I, seeing my chance, of your whole life, and with that I put her into my elbow-chair.In one miscellaneous section he came upon a Norries Epitome. He turned the pages reverently.That, now, is what old Bowditch in his Epitome calls the zodiac, and what my almanack below calls ditto.They possessed all the gravity of the latter, without any of their phlegm; and like them, the High Dutchers were industrious, honest, and economical, Fritz, or Frederick Hartmann, was an epitome of all the vices and virtues, foibles and excellences, of his race.Yes, I said; his life is motley and manifold and an epitome of the lives of many;--he answers to the State which we described as fair and spangled.It is as if a fragment of England floated forward to greet the foreigner--chalk of our chalk, turf of our turf, epitome of what will follow.Harthouse professed himself in the highest degree instructed and refreshed, by this condensed epitome of the whole Coketown question.

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