Usually means: Illustration or instance demonstrating a point.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. example: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. example: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. example: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. example: Collins English Dictionary
  5. example: Vocabulary.com
  6. Example, example, example: Wordnik
  7. example: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. example: Wiktionary
  9. example: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. example: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. example: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Example, example: Dictionary.com
  13. example: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. example: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Example (album), Example (musician), Example (rapper), Example, The Example (comics), The Example, .example: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Example: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. example: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. example: Rhymezone
  19. example: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. example: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. example: Free Dictionary
  22. example: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. example: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. example: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. example: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. example: Netlingo
  2. example: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. example: Idioms
  2. Dictionary of Sorts (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Example: Easton Bible

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Something that is representative of all such things in a group.
noun:  Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule.
noun:  Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example).
noun:  A person punished as a warning to others.
noun:  A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model.
noun:  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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