Usually means: Illustrative story teaching a moral.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word exemplum:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. exemplum: Merriam-Webster
  2. exemplum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exemplum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. exemplum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Exemplum, exemplum: Wordnik
  6. exemplum: Wiktionary
  7. exemplum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. exemplum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. exemplum: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. exemplum: Dictionary.com
  11. Exemplum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. exemplum: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  13. exemplum: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. exemplum: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Exemplum: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exemplum: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (exemplum)

▸ noun:  An example.
▸ noun:  A story demonstrating a moral point; a parable.

Similar:
exemplification, instance, example, excerptum, illustration, exhibit, exhibition, demonstration, epitomization, showcasing, more...

Opposite:
antithesis, contradiction, reverse

Types:
parable, fable, allegory, more...

Adjectives:
moral, negative, medieval, first, historical, latin, second, mythological, final, perfect, single

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Similar:
exemplification, instance, example, excerptum, illustration, exhibit, exhibition, demonstration, epitomization, showcasing, more...

Opposite:
antithesis, contradiction, reverse

Types:
parable, fable, allegory, more...

Adjectives:
moral, negative, medieval, first, historical, latin, second, mythological, final, perfect, single



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