quintessentialadjective
uk/ˌkwɪn.tɪˈsen.ʃəl/us/ˌkwɪn.tɪˈsen.ʃəl/formalbeing the most typical example or most important part of something:
Sheep's milk cheese is the quintessential Corsican cheese.
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Typifying, illustrating and exemplifying
- analogy
- archetype
- be sb all over idiom
- betoken
- by way of idiom
- genre
- hold
- mark
- mirror
- Mr
- Mrs
- representative
- resemble
- stand
- true
- trust
- trust sb (to do sth)! idiom
- typical
- typically
- typify
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quintessentially
adverb uk/ˌkwɪn.tɪˈsen.ʃəl.i/us/ˌkwɪn.tɪˈsen.ʃəl.i/
The painting is quintessentially British.