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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Popular Bachardy books like “Hollywood” and “Stars in My Eyes” are compendiums of many of those movie star drawings, and lots of them are very good.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025
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
Many of them showed up in more than 40 books and other published work that included compendiums of one-liners and magician stage banter.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2023
Indeed, American cookbook authors focusing on non-Eurocentric recipes no longer have to be compendiums that represent the cuisine of their heritage as a whole; instead they can have diasporic nuances.
From Salon ● May 26, 2022
From the late Prince Ito's grossly misleading Commentary on the Japanese Constitution down to school compendiums, the absurd dates are everywhere insisted upon.
From The Problem of China by Russell, Bertrand
