compendium
noun
a brief treatment or account of a subject, especially an extensive subject; concise treatise.
compendiums
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pluralof compendium.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The effect of these two compendiums is to take us back to Wilde himself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
That’s because the company’s giant color compendiums originate at least in part from ornithology and natural history.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 7, 2023
Both are compendiums of artful dodging and febrile rhetoric, which is what corporate lawyers produce for a living.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
There have been plenty of Academy annals before, of course: detailed compendiums, official and not; glossy adornments for the coffee table; and at least one prose investigation of its increasingly byzantine fashion system.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
James—these compendiums of wit and wisdom have become the greatest nuisances of all civilized society—— Shepherd.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 338, November 1, 1828 by Various
