noun
Meaning 1
A short, complete summary; an abstract.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
compendium
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/kəmˈpɛn.di.əm/
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noun
Meaning 2
A list or collection of various items.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
A list or collection of various items.
A collection of board games packaged in a single box.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
A list or collection of various items.
A collected body of information on the standards of strength, purity, and quality of drugs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: pharmaceutical industry
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noun
Meaning 5
a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: summary, sum-up
noun
Meaning 6
a publication containing a variety of works
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: collection
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: publication
Narrower terms: anthology, archives, compilation, digest
History
Etymology
From the Latin compendium (“that which is weighed together; a sparing, a saving, an abbreviation”), from com- (“with”) + pendō (“to weigh”).
Across languages
Translations
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: резюме (rezjume) — short, complete summary
- Bulgarian: конспект (konspekt) — short, complete summary
- Catalan: compendi — short, complete summary
- Dutch: compendium — short, complete summary
- Esperanto: kompendio — short, complete summary
- Finnish: tiivistelmä — short, complete summary
- French: recueil — short, complete summary
- French: compendium — short, complete summary
- Galician: compendio — short, complete summary
- German: Kompendium — short, complete summary
- Greek: επιτομή (epitomí) — short, complete summary
- Greek: σύνοψη (sýnopsi) — short, complete summary
- Indonesian: kompendium — short, complete summary
- Italian: compendio — short, complete summary
- Japanese: 大要 (taiyou) — short, complete summary
- Japanese: 要約 (youyaku) — short, complete summary
- Māori: mātāpunenga — short, complete summary
- Norwegian Bokmål: kompendium — short, complete summary
- Norwegian Nynorsk: kompendium — short, complete summary
- Pali: mattha-saṅgaha — short, complete summary
- Polish: kompendium — short, complete summary
- Romanian: compendiu — short, complete summary
- Russian: конспе́кт (konspékt) — short, complete summary
- Russian: компе́ндиум (kompéndium) — short, complete summary
- Spanish: compendio — short, complete summary
- Swahili: mkusanyiko — short, complete summary
- Swedish: kompendium — short, complete summary
- Vietnamese: sơ lược — short, complete summary
- Vietnamese: tóm lược — short, complete summary
- Vietnamese: toát yếu — short, complete summary
- Vietnamese: tập yếu — short, complete summary
Real reading context