Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A short, complete summary; an abstract.
- n. A list or collection of various items.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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.
- n. Synonyms Epitome, Abstract, etc. See abridgment.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a publication containing a variety of works
- n. a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work
Etymologies
- From the Latin compendium ("that which is weighed together”; “a sparing”, “a saving”, “an abbreviation"), from com- ("with") + pendō ("I weigh"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin, a shortening, from compendere, to weigh together : com-, com- + pendere, to weigh; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I pray that this compendium is not complete, because it appears that the U.S. only launched 15 rockets last year.”
“The compendium is a sampling of the abundance and variety of collections available for use.”
“A short compendium from the “Toward a New Literacy of Cooperation” course at Stanford, Winter 2005.”
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“While not new to publishing (release in 1996), this book is a necessary swear word compendium for any English lover.”
“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.”
“The compendium is a collection of published and unpublished works of researchers in the different institutions in the Cordillera.”
“Due to the variety of topics covered, the book has been characterized as a compendium or a “philosophical encyclopedia in miniature””
“It would be more properly called a compendium, but the name discography seems to sound better.”
“Junipero Serra, whose name and labors may be termed a compendium of”
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“It has well been called the compendium of all his studies and of all his writings; and, chronologically, it is the first masterpiece of the perfected”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘compendium’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abject, abjure, abscission, abscond, abstemious, abstinence, abysmal, accretion and 787 more...
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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EN - eloquence in public speaking
Key words from "The Training of a Public Speaker" by Grenville Kleiser (New York and London, 1920)
beget, imago, approbation, orator, peroration, Cicero, eloquence, elocution, rhetoric, premeditate, plead, Isocrates and 264 more...
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To Define Collections
pasticcio, olio, compendium, assemblage, menagerie, miscellanea, farrago, hotchpot, omnium-gatherum, cento, gallimaufry, anthology and 2 more...
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Stump the Beezer
incipient, apocryphal, spurious, compendium, genius loci, tenterhooks, effusive, syncophant, glycosyn, pugnacious, secure authentica..., lexical semantics and 1 more...
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Collections
Have I made this list before? Has someone else collected these words together? I can't remember, so I'm just going to start storing some things here.
collection, omnium-gatherum, sylloge, antiphonary, anthology, bestiary, cartulary, dossier, sampler, assortment, variety, hodgepodge and 65 more...
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new words
trite, credence, saith, drivel, horology, permeable, rigorous, cynarctomachy, hapless, compendium
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Wordplayer's Wonderful Words
chaparral, grotesque, knork, newsmonger, thitherwards, fackeltanz, kakistocracy, sforzando, compendium, frump, inquere, phosphene and 100 more...
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Verba Dilecta
delectable, notate, pauciloquy, paucity, pauciloquent, paucify, interscapilium, uropygium, inferna, nota, equipollent, prepollent and 677 more...
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word tank
a couple words
logolepsy, nefarious, quintessential, tintinnabulation, serendipity, rhapsody, palimpsest, panoply, mellifluous, imbue, loquacious, garrulous and 174 more...
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GRE Words
abjure, unswear, state, rescission, indemnification, ab, reny, abnegate, vitiated, vitiate, adumbrated, abash and 378 more...
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SAT vocab
abash, abate, abdicate, aberration, abhor, abject, abnegate, abortive, absolve, abstruse, accolade, accost and 175 more...
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List Erine
cool mint antiseptic
shalom, cattywampus, bourgeoisie, aerophile, traverse, grotto, epicurean, ex cathedra, nautilus, epitaph, lathe, continuum and 753 more...
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Stumbled Words
A list of words that I stumbled upon while reading.
penumbra, prolix, propitious, resplendence, sepulchral, Weltschmerz, apparition, brigand, probity, chalice, paroxysm, pallor and 160 more...
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Revised GRE Wordlist_2013
Vocabulary building for my quest of GRE 2013
ephemeral, esoteric, rhetoric, censure, egregious, pittance, dupe, mulct, paucity, alacrity, maintain, laconic and 1008 more...
Tweets
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