Definitions for epitomes

epitomes e·pit·o·me

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

Epitomes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 297 anagrams from letters in epitomes (eeimopst).

Definitions for epitomes

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 epitomes

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

Examples for epitomes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for epitomes
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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