3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Exemplar \Ex*em"plar\, n. [L. exemplar, exemplum: cf F.
exemplaire See {Example}, and cf {Examper}, {Sampler}.]
1. A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a
specimen; sometimes an ideal model or type as that which
an artist conceives.
Such grand exemplar as make their own abilities the
sole measure of what is fit or unfit. --South.
2. A copy of a book or writing. [Obs.] --Udall.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Exemplar \Ex*em"plar\, a.
Exemplary. [Obs.]
The exemplar piety of the father of a family. --Jer.
Taylor.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
exemplar
n : something to be imitated; "an exemplar of success"; "a model
of clarity"; "he is the very model of a modern major
general" [syn: {example}, {model}, {good example}]
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