Although most people thought of the Bible as a compendium of inspirational thought and Near Eastern traditions, an American school board wanted to declare it a science textbook.
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Compendium
//kəmˈpɛn.di.əm//
Synonyms for "compendium" (45 found)
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Strong matches (14)
Related words (22)
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1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
2 entriesis a
4 entriesrelated to
9 entriesTranslations
31 translations across 23 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- конспект noun (short, complete summary)
- резюме noun (short, complete summary)
Catalan
1 entries- compendi noun (short, complete summary)
Dutch
1 entries- compendium noun (short, complete summary)
Esperanto
1 entries- kompendio noun (short, complete summary)
Finnish
1 entries- tiivistelmä noun (short, complete summary)
French
2 entries- compendium noun (short, complete summary)
- recueil noun (short, complete summary)
Galician
1 entries- compendio noun (short, complete summary)
German
1 entries- Kompendium noun (short, complete summary)
Greek
2 entries- επιτομή noun (short, complete summary)
- σύνοψη noun (short, complete summary)
Indonesian
1 entries- kompendium noun (short, complete summary)
Italian
1 entries- compendio noun (short, complete summary)
Japanese
2 entries- 大要 noun (short, complete summary)
- 要約 noun (short, complete summary)
Māori
1 entries- mātāpunenga noun (short, complete summary)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kompendium noun (short, complete summary)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- kompendium noun (short, complete summary)
Pali
1 entries- mattha-saṅgaha noun (short, complete summary)
Polish
1 entries- kompendium noun (short, complete summary)
Romanian
1 entries- compendiu noun (short, complete summary)
Russian
2 entries- компе́ндиум noun (short, complete summary)
- конспе́кт noun (short, complete summary)
Spanish
1 entries- compendio noun (short, complete summary)
Swahili
1 entries- mkusanyiko noun (short, complete summary)
Swedish
1 entries- kompendium noun (short, complete summary)
Vietnamese
4 entries- sơ lược noun (short, complete summary)
- toát yếu noun (short, complete summary)
- tóm lược noun (short, complete summary)
- tập yếu noun (short, complete summary)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
According to “Hal Ka Haleel,” a compendium of his legacy and work, Hadraawi wrote the lyrics to more than 200 epic poems and the lyrics to more than 70 songs.
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Howard Rheingold glances up from his oversized computer screen. It's the most familiar object among many, mostly foreign, curios that fill his colorful home office. As a freelance writer, Mr. Rheingold has authored several books and countless magazine articles. Still, he feels special affection for his published compendium of strange — and strangely useful — non-English words.
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However, since we are talking about more than 500 books that were returned, this is one of the most important recoveries in our investigations to reconstruct the compendium of the library.
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