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compendium

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"Brief collection"

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10 lettersPronunciation /kəmˈpɛn.di.əm/Part of speech nounSorted cdeimmnopuStarts with CEnds with M1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work

Word origin

From the Latin compendium (“that which is weighed together; a sparing, a saving, an abbreviation”), from com- (“with”) + pendō (“to weigh”).

Used in a sentence

  • It was this last variety which formed the backbone of the first published Italian compendium of games, Innocenzo Ringhieri's One Hundred Games of Liberality and Ingenuity of 1551, dedicated to Cathérine de' Medici.

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