Hypertext Webster Gateway: "exemplar"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Exemplar \Ex*em"plar\, n. [L. exemplar, exemplum: cf. F.
exemplaire. See {Example}, and cf. {Examper}, {Sampler}.]
1. A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a
specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which
an artist conceives.
Such grand exemplar as make their own abilities the
sole measure of what is fit or unfit. --South.
2. A copy of a book or writing. [Obs.] --Udall.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Exemplar \Ex*em"plar\, a.
Exemplary. [Obs.]
The exemplar piety of the father of a family. --Jer.
Taylor.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
exemplar
n : something to be imitated; "an exemplar of success"; "a model
of clarity"; "he is the very model of a modern major
general" [syn: {example}, {model}, {good example}]
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