n.
1. A representative or example of a class or type: "He is seen . . . as the epitome of the hawkish, right-of-center intellectual" Paul Kennedy.
2. A brief summary, as of a book or article; an abstract.
[Latin epitom
, a summary, from Greek, an abridgment, from epitemnein, to cut short : epi-, epi- + temnein, to cut; see tem- in Indo-European roots.]
, a summary, from Greek, an abridgment, from epitemnein, to cut short : epi-, epi- + temnein, to cut; see tem- in Indo-European roots.]The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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