exemplary

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Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

  1. adjective worthy of imitation
  2. adjective being or serving as an illustration of a type
  3. adjective serving to warn

Etymology

From Middle French exemplaire (“exemplary; a copy, facsimile; an example; a sample, specimen”), from Latin exemplāris (“exemplary; a copy, facsimile”), from exemplum (“an example; a sample; a copy or transcript”). By surface analysis, example + -ary. Doublet of exemplar. First use as a noun appears c. 1425, as an adjective, c. 1507.

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model

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