| 单词 | compendium |
| 释义 | compendium (once / 4396 pages) n When you search an online encyclopedia, you are searching a compendium of information on just about everything. A compendium is a comprehensive collection of something. You can also use the word compendium to describe a collection of written works. If you gather all of the anecdotes your parents and grandparents have told you into a book, you'll have created a compendium of family stories. The plural of compendium is either compendiums or compendia. WORD FAMILYcompendium: compendious, compendiums+/compendious: compendiously USAGE EXAMPLESThe publisher rereleased all seven original books in a special compendium, complete with an audio book read by the actor John Krasinski. The New Yorker(Dec 23, 2016) There are 73 films on this year’s Black List, the annual compendium of popular unproduced screenplays. The Guardian(Dec 13, 2016) Below, we present a compendium of sorts about the election, to help guide you in your discussions. New York Times(Nov 23, 2016) 1n a publication containing a variety of works Syn|Hypo|Hyper collection anthology a collection of selected literary passages archivescollection of records especially about an institution compilation, digestsomething that is compiled (as into a single book or file) divan, diwana collection of Persian or Arabic poems (usually by one author) florilegium, garland, miscellanyan anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. omnibusan anthology of articles on a related subject or an anthology of the works of a single author publication a copy of a printed work offered for distribution 2n a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work Hyper sum-up, summary a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form |
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