Definition of Example

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Example

One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen.

That which is to be followed or imitated as a model; a pattern or copy.

That which resembles or corresponds with something else; a precedent; a model.

That which is to be avoided; one selected for punishment and to serve as a warning; a warning.

An instance serving for illustration of a rule or precept, especially a problem to be solved, or a case to be determined, as an exercise in the application of the rules of any study or branch of science; as, in trigonometry and grammar, the principles and rules are illustrated by examples.

To set an example for; to give a precedent for; to exemplify; to give an instance of; to instance.

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Example Quotations

There is no teaching to compare with example.
Robert Powell

I don't know any other way to lead but by example.
Don Shula

Example is leadership.
Albert Schweitzer

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
Alfred de Vigny

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Example Translations

example in Afrikaans is voorbeeld
example in Danish is eksempel
example in Dutch is toonbeeld, voorbeeld
example in Finnish is esimerkki
example in French is exemple, ex
example in German is Beispiel, Vorbild, Beispiel
example in Italian is esempio, modello
example in Latin is exempoator, exemplum
example in Norwegian is eksempel
example in Portuguese is exemplo
example in Spanish is cala a, ejemplo


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