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example

noun
/ɪɡˈzɑːm.pəl/UK/ɪɡˈzam.pəl//ɪɡˈzæm.pəl/US

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).

  1. derived from exemplum — “sample, pattern, specimen, copy for imitation, etc.”
  2. derived from example
  3. inherited from example

Definitions

  1. Something that is representative of all such things in a group.

  2. Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule.

  3. Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to…

    Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example).

    • Nelson Mandela was an example for many to follow.
    • For I haue giuen you an example, that yee ſhould doe, as I haue done to you.
    • I gave, thou ſay'ſt, th' example, / I led the way;
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A person punished as a warning to others.

      • […]hang him, hee'le be made an example.
      • Now theſe things were our examples, to the intent wee ſhould not luſt after euil things, as they alſo luſted.

    2. A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model.

      • Such temperate order in ſo fierce a cauſe, / Doth want example:[…]

    3. An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to…

      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.

    4. To be illustrated or exemplified (by).

The neighborhood

Derived

by way of example, counterexample, example in point, exampleless, exampler, exemplarily, exemplary, exemplification, exemplify, for example, lead by example, make an example of, nonexample, proof by example, set an example, Stein's example, textbook example

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for example. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA