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sample
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of SAMPLE
1
a number of things selected from a group to stand for the whole <based on a sample of the menu items, we decided that this was the best restaurant in town>
Related Words case, example, exemplar, exemplification, illustration, instance, representative, specimen; archetype, classic, locus classicus, paradigm, prototype; microcosm
2
one of a group or collection that shows what the whole is like <this vase is a sample of the high-quality glassware that the glassblowers can produce>
Synonyms case, exemplar, exemplification, illustration, instance, prototype, representative, sample, specimen
Related Words archetype, classic, locus classicus, paradigm; cross section, microcosm; evidence, indication, manifestation, sign
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