EXAMPLE meaning: Illustration or instance demonstrating a point

We found 38 dictionaries that define the word Example:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

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example: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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example: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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Example (album), Example (musician), Example (rapper), Example, The Example (comics), The Example, .example: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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example: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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example: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
example: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)

Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
example: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

example: Netlingo
example: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

example: Idioms
Dictionary of Sorts (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)

Example: Easton Bible

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

example: Urban Dictionary

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Google, News, Images, Wikipedia, Reddit, BlueSky

Definitions from Wiktionary (example)

▸ noun:  Something that is representative of all such things in a group.
▸ noun:  Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule.
▸ noun:  Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example).
▸ noun:  A person punished as a warning to others.
▸ noun:  A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model.
▸ noun:  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.
▸ verb:  To be illustrated or exemplified (by).

Opposite:

counterexample, anomaly, exception, aberration, deviation

Types:

case in point, for instance, illustration, such as, more...

Phrases:

for example, good example, classic example, textbook example, deterrent example, more...

Adjectives:

good, simple, typical, excellent, classic, second, striking, previous, above, prime, interesting

Colors:

blue, red, green, yellow, orange, more...

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