Definitions for epitome

epitome e·pit·o·me

Spelling: [ih-pit-uh-mee]
IPA: /ɪˈpɪt ə mi/

Epitome is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 129 anagrams from letters in epitome (eeimopt).

Definitions for epitome

noun

  1. a person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class:
  2. a condensed account, especially of a literary work; abstract.

Origin of epitome

1520-30; Latin epitomē abridgment Greek epitomḗ abridgment, surface incision. See epi-, -tome

Examples for epitome

"He does not love me and I do not deserve that he should," was her epitome of the situation.

They are the epitome of old-school rationality and refinement—or at least they were until now.

All in all, Bates strikes me as a good upstanding Englishman—the epitome of stiff-upper-lip resolve and restraint.

Mrs. Delamere is doubtless an epitome of all the virtues, but I never heard of her.

His judgment was an epitome of the scientific insight of the ages which culminated then.

So, is the USA the epitome of the civilization of illiteracy?

Tanny came to be known as the epitome of a Balanchine dancer, with her long legs and graceful, fluid lines.

Talking, rightly considered, is the expression and epitome of life itself.

He really is the epitome of the cliché “women want him and men want to be him.”

It was the epitome of Kim Kardashian, and a fitting summation of the Year of Butt.

Word Value for epitome
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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