compendium
- a brief treatment or account of a subject, especially an extensive subject; concise treatise: a compendium of medicine.
- a summary, epitome, or abridgment.
- a full list or inventory: a compendium of their complaints.
Origin of compendium
Synonyms for compendium
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sketch, essence, abstract, manual, brief, summary, syllabus, survey, conspectus, overview, handbook, epitome, guide, digest, pandectExamples from the Web for compendium
Contemporary Examples of compendium
Ultimately, though, it feels like more of a compendium piece than a fully formed documentary.
They Came Together is a compendium of every romcom cliché known to man.
The Scarfe cartoon would comfortably fit in any compendium of such grotesqueries.
(Tobin contents himself with offering one link in his entire piece, which takes you a compendium of all of Steinfels's work).
A compendium of literary parodies—some loving, some devastating—on the subject of Christmas.
Historical Examples of compendium
The ballot is the compendium of all there is in civilization, and of all that civilization has done for us.
His compendium of Galen was the text-book of medicine in the West for many centuries.
Old-Time Makers of MedicineJames J. Walsh
She was worth her wages to the office merely as a compendium of shams.
In Our TownWilliam Allen White
Johnstown is a compendium of business, and misery, and despair.
History of the Johnstown FloodWillis Fletcher Johnson
He began a compendium of religions, then of literature, and last of the Romance languages.
Idling in ItalyJoseph Collins
compendium
- British a book containing a collection of useful hints
- British a selection, esp of different games or other objects in one container
- a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work