Usually means: Perfect example of a quality.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word epitome:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. epitome: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. epitome: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. epitome: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. epitome: Collins English Dictionary
  5. epitome: Vocabulary.com
  6. Epitome, epitome: Wordnik
  7. epitome: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. epitome: Wiktionary
  9. epitome: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. epitome: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. epitome: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Epitome, epitome: Dictionary.com
  13. epitome: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. epitome: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Epitome (data processing), Epitome (disambiguation), Epitome (film), Epitome: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Epitome: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. epitome: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. epitome: Rhymezone
  19. Epitome: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. epitome: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. epitome: Free Dictionary
  22. epitome: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. epitome: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. epitome: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. epitome: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. epitome: Legal dictionary
  2. epitome: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. epitome: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. epitome: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. epitome: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (epitome)

noun:  The embodiment or encapsulation of a class of items.
noun:  A representative example.
noun:  The height; the best; the most vivid.
noun:  A brief summary of a text.

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