exemplar

CEFRC1

/ɛɡˈzɛm.plə/

noun

Türkçe translations

Translating…

In plain English

Examples

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Also pronounced

Deep Dive

Extra meanings

Something typical or representative; an example that typifies its class.
Something fit to be imitated; an ideal, a worthy model or role model: a desirable example.
A well-known use of a scientific theory.

In context

The teacher provided an exemplar for the students to follow.
To amend the same [default] according to the true exemplars.
In our age we have no patterne of motherly affection more exemplare, than yours.

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

The word in print, with each source given in full.

To amend the same [default] according to the true exemplars.
1539, Richard Taverner, “Preface”, in Taverner's Bible
A ray of light amid all this nonsense was Gwyn Topham's piece in the Guardian, which was timely, measured, accurate and of appropriate tone. That this single report stood out so clearly as an exemplar is a scathing comment in itself on the volumes of drivel surrounding it.
2020 August 26, Nigel Harris, “Comment Special: Catastrophe at Carmont”, in Rail, page 4
In our age we have no patterne of motherly affection more exemplare, than yours.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Looking a word up is the easy part. LexUp remembers which words you have met and brings them back at the point you were about to forget them.

Learned borrowing from Latin exemplar, from Latin exemplum (“example”). Doublet of exemplary.