Noun: summary
| Singular | summary |
| Plural | summaries |
Sample Sentences
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I'd forgotten what happened in the first Harry Potter book so I read a summary of the narrative before starting the second one.
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make a summary of the events
Nouns inflected like summary
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Medieval Latin summārium, from Latin summa (“total, sum”) + -ārium (suffix forming nouns of purpose). See: Latin Nouns '
summa'.