Usually means: Outstanding model of excellence, ideal.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. exemplary: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. exemplary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exemplary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. exemplary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. exemplary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Exemplary, exemplary: Wordnik
  7. exemplary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. exemplary: Wiktionary
  9. exemplary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. exemplary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. exemplary: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Exemplary, exemplary: Dictionary.com
  13. exemplary: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. exemplary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Exemplary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. exemplary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. exemplary: Rhymezone
  18. exemplary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. exemplary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. exemplary: Free Dictionary
  21. exemplary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. exemplary: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. exemplary: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exemplary: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. EXEMPLARY: Acronym Finder

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Deserving honour, respect and admiration.
adjective:  Of such high quality that it should serve as an example to be imitated; ideal, perfect.
adjective:  Serving as a warning; monitory.
adjective:  Providing an example or illustration.
noun:  (obsolete) An example, or typical instance.
noun:  (obsolete) A copy of a book or a piece of writing.

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