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example ex·am·ple

Spelling: [ig-zam-puh l, -zahm-]

IPA: /ɪgˈzæm pəl, -ˈzɑm-/

Example is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 115 anagrams from letters in example (aeelmpx).

Definitions for example

noun

1. one of a number of things, or a part of something, taken to show the character of the whole:
2. a pattern or model, as of something to be imitated or avoided:
3. an instance serving for illustration; specimen:
4. an instance illustrating a rule or method, as a mathematical problem proposed for solution.
5. an instance, especially of punishment, serving as a warning to others:
6. a precedent; parallel case:

verb (used with object)

1. Rare. to give or be an example of; exemplify (used in the passive).

Origin of example

1350-1400; Middle English exa(u)mple Middle French example Latin exemplum, akin to eximere to take out (ex- ex-¹ + emere to buy, orig. take); replacing Middl

Examples for example

That makes it incredibly difficult to determine the effects of airstrikes, for example.

Politics, for example, would be less entertaining without it.

Following the example of his predecessor, in 1868, Mr. Gladstone resigned.

In 2004, for example, Scalise voted “no” on a resolution to make Martin Luther King Jr.

That one example, moreover, has been a success as unqualified as undeniable.

Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.

Man followed their example and searched until he found an empty grotto.

How little has been the effect of this example on the conduct of the enemy!

As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.

With Vice, that was an example of you keeping yourself interested too, right?