Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A short but complete summary of something.
- noun A list or collection of various items.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A brief compilation or composition containing the principal heads of a larger work or system, or the general principles or leading points of a subject; an abridgment; a summary; an epitome. Also
compend . - noun Synonyms Epitome, Abstract, etc. See
abridgment .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A brief compilation or composition, containing the principal heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; an abridgment; an epitome; a compend; a condensed summary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
short ,complete summary ; anabstract . - noun A
list orcollection ofvarious items .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a publication containing a variety of works
- noun a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I pray that this compendium is not complete, because it appears that the U.S. only launched 15 rockets last year.
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The compendium is a sampling of the abundance and variety of collections available for use.
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A short compendium from the “Toward a New Literacy of Cooperation” course at Stanford, Winter 2005.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Best of “Literacy of Cooperation” video 2006
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A short compendium from the “Toward a New Literacy of Cooperation” course at Stanford, Winter 2005.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Best of “Literacy of Cooperation” video 2006
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The latest, Up the Bright River, is a 120,000 word compendium of short stories that show off the many worlds Farmer created and worked in, including the first appearance of the last three Riverworld tales in a Farmer collection.
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While not new to publishing (release in 1996), this book is a necessary swear word compendium for any English lover.
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The latest, Up the Bright River, is a 120,000 word compendium of short stories that show off the many worlds Farmer created and worked in, including the first appearance of the last three Riverworld tales in a Farmer collection.
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The compendium is a collection of published and unpublished works of researchers in the different institutions in the Cordillera.
Agricultural Research Agencies in CAR Coordinate Databases 2008
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Due to the variety of topics covered, the book has been characterized as a compendium or a “philosophical encyclopedia in miniature”
Abraham Ibn Daud Fontaine, Resianne 2006
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It would be more properly called a compendium, but the name discography seems to sound better.
dimã©lion commented on the word compendium
good freakin' word.
November 22, 2008