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compend

compend noun: a compendium; an epitome; a summary.

Noun

compend (plural compends)

  1. A compendium; an epitome; a summary.
    • […] the man being only a sort of compend of the globe with its centrifugence and centripetence, with its chemistry, with its polarity, with its undulation.1858, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Natural Method of Mental Philosophy

Forms of compend

pluralcompends

Questions about compend

What does compend mean?
Compend means a compendium; an epitome; a summary.
What part of speech is compend?
Compend is a noun.
What is the plural of compend?
The plural of compend is compends.

Words near compend in the dictionary

  1. compellingly
  2. compellingness
  3. compellings
  4. compels
  5. compels testimony
  6. compend
  7. compendia
  8. compendial
  9. compendiary
  10. compendiate
  11. compendiated

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