Definitions for compendium

compendium com·pen·di·um

Spelling: [kuh m-pen-dee-uh m]
IPA: /kəmˈpɛn di əm/

Compendium is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.

You can make 432 anagrams from letters in compendium (cdeimmnopu).

Definitions for compendium

noun

  1. a brief treatment or account of a subject, especially an extensive subject; concise treatise:
  2. a summary, epitome, or abridgment.
  3. a full list or inventory:

Origin of compendium

1575-85; Latin: gain, saving, shortcut, abridgment, equivalent to com- com- + pend- (stem of pendere to cause to hang down, weigh) + -ium -ium

Examples for compendium

She was worth her wages to the office merely as a compendium of shams.

His compendium of Galen was the text-book of medicine in the West for many centuries.

A compendium of literary parodies—some loving, some devastating—on the subject of Christmas.

Ultimately, though, it feels like more of a compendium piece than a fully formed documentary.

They Came Together is a compendium of every romcom cliché known to man.

(Tobin contents himself with offering one link in his entire piece, which takes you a compendium of all of Steinfels's work).

Johnstown is a compendium of business, and misery, and despair.

The Scarfe cartoon would comfortably fit in any compendium of such grotesqueries.

The ballot is the compendium of all there is in civilization, and of all that civilization has done for us.

He began a compendium of religions, then of literature, and last of the Romance languages.

Word Value for compendium
Scrable

19

Words with friends

25

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