Noun: exemplar
| Singular | exemplar |
| Plural | exemplars |
Sample Sentences
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A ray of light amid all this nonsense was Gwyn Topham's piece in the Guardian, which was timely, measured, accurate and of appropriate tone. That this single report stood out so clearly as an exemplar is a scathing comment in itself on the volumes of drivel surrounding it. [2020 August 26, Nigel Harris, “Comment Special: Catastrophe at Carmont”, in Rail, page 4:]
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To amend the same [default] according to the true exemplars. [1539, Richard Taverner, “Preface”, in Taverner's Bible:]
Nouns inflected like exemplar
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English exempler, from Middle French exemplair, and its source, Latin exemplar, from Latin exemplum (“example”). See: Middle English Nouns '
exempler', Latin Nouns '
exemplar', Latin Nouns '
exemplum'.
Verbs referencing "exemplar"
Finnish Nouns
eksemplaari.