example

== English == === Alternative forms === ex. === Etymology === From Middle English example, exaumple, from Old French example, essaumple, from Latin exemplum (“sample, pattern, specimen, copy for imitation, etc.”, literally “what is taken out”); see exempt. Doublet of exemplum and sample. Displaced native Middle English forebisne, from Old English forebȳsn; and Middle English bisne, from Old English bȳsn (modern English bizen). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪɡˈzɑːm.pəl/ (Northern England, Scotland) IPA(key): /ɪɡˈzam.pəl/ (US) IPA(key): /ɪɡˈzæm.pəl/, [ɪɡˈzɛəmpəɫ] (US, General Australian, weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /əɡˈzæm.pəl/ (New Zealand) IPA(key): /əɡˈzaːm.pəl/, [ɘɡˈzɐːmpɯ] Hyphenation: ex‧am‧ple Rhymes: -ɑːmpəl, -æmpəl === Noun === example (plural examples) Something that is representative of all such things in a group. Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule. Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example). A person punished as a warning to others. A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model. An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise in the application of the rule. ==== Synonyms ==== byspel (nonstandard) exemplar exemplificator (formal) exemplum e.g. See also Thesaurus:model See also Thesaurus:exemplar ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== exemplar model pattern quotation template === Verb === example (third-person singular simple present examples, present participle exampling, simple past and past participle exampled) To be illustrated or exemplified (by). (Can we add an example for this sense?) === Further reading === “example”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “example”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “example”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. “example”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. example in Britannica Dictionary example in Macmillan Collocations Dictionary example in Ozdic collocation dictionary example in WordReference English Collocations === Anagrams === exempla