HOW TO PRONOUNCE
example
/ɪɡˈzæm.pəl/
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What does example mean?
noun
- Something that is representative of all such things in a group.
- Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule.
- Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example).
More meanings (4)
noun
- A person punished as a warning to others.
- A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model.
- An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise in the application of the rule.
verb
- To be illustrated or exemplified (by).
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IPA pronunciation
/ɪɡˈzæm.pəl/
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Had the example not been followed by other nations, all Europe must long ago have worn the chains of a universal monarch.
I was thus led to infer that the ground of our opinions is far more custom and example than any certain knowledge.
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A triumphant outburst of welcoming ejaculations swelled to the roof as she knelt there, and under its impetus others followed her example.
Henry Crawford, ruined by early independence and bad domestic example, indulged in the freaks of a cold-blooded vanity a little too long.
“The most dreadful part of slavery, to my mind, is its outrages on the feelings and affections,—the separating of families, for example.”