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typify

UK/ˈtɪpɪfaɪ/

typify verb: to embody, exemplify; to represent by a form, image, model, or resemblance.

Verb

typify (third-person singular simple present typifies, present participle typifying, simple past and past participle typified)

  1. (transitive) To embody, exemplify; to represent by a form, image, model, or resemblance.
    • His attitude typifies the attitude of young people today.
  2. (transitive) To portray stereotypically.
    • The angry captain typified all new sailors as incompetent.
  3. (transitive) To serve as a typical or reference specimen of.
    • The chosen specimen typifies plants belonging to that species.

typify meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

typify in Malayalam

പ്രതിരൂപംകൊണ്ടു കാട്ടുക, സൂചിപ്പിക്കുക, ആദർശീകരിക്കുക

typify in Kannada

ಎತ್ತುಗೆ ಕೊಡು, ಉದಾಹರಿಸು, ದೃಷ್ಟಾಂತಪಡಿಸು

Examples of typify in a sentence

  • In fact, students are often taught that specific collections—diatonic, octatonic, and whole-tone, etc.—typify these composers' compositional language.
  • One person who typifies that feeling is Aaron Swartz, a 22-year-old programmer who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • East of Khotan itself, we find a local culture typified by a cemetery at Sampul (Shanpula).

All 28 example sentences with typify

Forms of typify

third-person singular presenttypifies
present participletypifying
past participletypified
pasttypified

Past tense of typify: typified

Words formed from typify

Questions about typify

What does typify mean?
Typify means to embody, exemplify; to represent by a form, image, model, or resemblance.
What is typify in Malayalam?
Typify in Malayalam is പ്രതിരൂപംകൊണ്ടു കാട്ടുക, സൂചിപ്പിക്കുക, ആദർശീകരിക്കുക. See Typify meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is typify?
Typify is a verb.
How do you pronounce typify?
Typify is pronounced /ˈtɪpɪfaɪ/ (UK).
What is the past tense of typify?
The past tense of typify is typified.

Words near typify in the dictionary

  1. typifications
  2. typified
  3. typifier
  4. typifiers
  5. typifies
  6. typify
  7. typifying
  8. typika
  9. typikon
  10. typiness
  11. typing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: typify (page history and authors); typify (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); typify (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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