compendium

[ kuhm-pen-dee-uhm ]

/ kəmˈpɛn di əm /

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noun, plural com·pen·di·ums, com·pen·di·a [kuhm-pen-dee-uh] /kəmˈpɛn di ə/.

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.

Nearby words

compeer, compel, compellation, compelling, compendious, compendium, compensable, compensate, compensated acidosis, compensated alkalosis, compensated grade

Also com·pend

[kom-pend] /ˈkɒm pɛnd/.

Origin of compendium

1575–85; < Latin: gain, saving, shortcut, abridgment, equivalent to com- com- + pend- (stem of pendere to cause to hang down, weigh) + -ium -ium

SYNONYMS FOR compendium

1 survey, digest, conspectus.

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Examples from the Web for compendium

Ultimately, though, it feels like more of a compendium piece than a fully formed documentary.
Catch Him If You Can: Reliving Banksy’s New York Invasion|Alex Suskind|November 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They Came Together is a compendium of every romcom cliché known to man.
The Romantic Comedy Is Dead|Andrew Romano|July 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Scarfe cartoon would comfortably fit in any compendium of such grotesqueries.
A 10-Point Guide To Anti-Semitism And Its Perception|Mark Gardner|February 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST
(Tobin contents himself with offering one link in his entire piece, which takes you a compendium of all of Steinfels's work).
Jewish Sharptonism, Part 17|Peter Beinart|September 20, 2012|DAILY BEAST

A compendium of literary parodies—some loving, some devastating—on the subject of Christmas.
Twelve Unusual Christmas Reads|Stefan Beck|December 25, 2011|DAILY BEAST
He calls his book a compendium extracted from all authors and the practice of the professors, and edited only by himself.
Gilbertus Anglicus|Henry Ebenezer Handerson
A compendium of gymnastics, it increases strength and activity, dexterity, and rapidity of movement.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton|Thomas Wright
The present work is not a compendium of astronomy or an outline course of popular reading in that science.
A Text-Book of Astronomy|George C. Comstock
Fortunately this young girl had thus a compendium of all literature, and she is coming out all right.
The American Country Girl|Martha Foote Crow
Also a compendium of those sanitary principles on which the attainment and preservation of health depends.
Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 126, March 27, 1852|Various

British Dictionary definitions for compendium

compendium

/ (kəmˈpɛndɪəm) /

noun plural -diums or -dia (-dɪə)

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

Word Origin for compendium

C16: from Latin: a saving, literally: something weighed, from pendere to weigh

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compendium

noun, plural com·pen·di·ums, com·pen·di·a [kuhm-pen-dee-uh] /kəmˈpɛn di ə/.

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compendium

noun plural -diums or -dia (-dɪə)

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