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[ kuhm-pen-dee-uhm ] / kəmˈpɛn di əm / SEE SYNONYMS FOR compendium ON THESAURUS.COM
noun, plural com·pen·di·ums, com·pen·di·a [kuhm-pen-dee-uh]. /kəmˈpɛn di ə/. a brief treatment or account of a subject, especially an extensive subject; concise treatise: a compendium of medicine. a summary, epitome, or abridgment. a full list or inventory: a compendium of their complaints. Also com·pend [kom-pend]. /ˈkɒm pɛnd/. Origin of compendium1575–85; <Latin: gain, saving, shortcut, abridgment, equivalent to com-com- + pend- (stem of pendere to cause to hang down, weigh) + -ium-ium SYNONYMS FOR compendium1 survey, digest, conspectus. SEE SYNONYMS FOR compendium ON THESAURUS.COM Words nearby compendiumcompeer, compel, compellation, compelling, compendious, compendium, compensable, compensate, compensated acidosis, compensated alkalosis, compensated grade Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for compendiumTo learn everything about how to become a poll worker in your state, the EAC has a comprehensive compendium with all the details. COVID has created a shortage of poll workers. Here’s how to step in.|Sandra Gutierrez G.|October 1, 2020|Popular Science Ultimately, though, it feels like more of a compendium piece than a fully formed documentary. Catch Him If You Can: Reliving Banksy’s New York Invasion|Alex Suskind|November 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST They Came Together is a compendium of every romcom cliché known to man. The Romantic Comedy Is Dead|Andrew Romano|July 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST The Scarfe cartoon would comfortably fit in any compendium of such grotesqueries. A 10-Point Guide To Anti-Semitism And Its Perception|Mark Gardner|February 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST
(Tobin contents himself with offering one link in his entire piece, which takes you a compendium of all of Steinfels's work). Jewish Sharptonism, Part 17|Peter Beinart|September 20, 2012|DAILY BEAST A compendium of literary parodies—some loving, some devastating—on the subject of Christmas. Twelve Unusual Christmas Reads|Stefan Beck|December 25, 2011|DAILY BEAST He calls his book a compendium extracted from all authors and the practice of the professors, and edited only by himself. Gilbertus Anglicus|Henry Ebenezer Handerson A compendium of gymnastics, it increases strength and activity, dexterity, and rapidity of movement. The Life of Sir Richard Burton|Thomas Wright The present work is not a compendium of astronomy or an outline course of popular reading in that science. A Text-Book of Astronomy|George C. Comstock Fortunately this young girl had thus a compendium of all literature, and she is coming out all right. The American Country Girl|Martha Foote Crow Also a compendium of those sanitary principles on which the attainment and preservation of health depends. Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 126, March 27, 1852|Various
British Dictionary definitions for compendium
noun plural -diums or -dia (-dɪə)British a book containing a collection of useful hints British a selection, esp of different games or other objects in one container a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work Word Origin for compendiumC16: from Latin: a saving, literally: something weighed, from pendere to weigh Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to compendiumsketch, essence, abstract, manual, brief, summary, syllabus, survey, conspectus, overview, handbook, epitome, guide, digest, précis, aperçu, pandect |