sample

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a small part of something intended as representative of the whole
noun items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population
noun all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class

Inherited from Middle English saumple, sample, from Old French essample (“example”), from Latin exemplum. Doublet of example and exemplum.

"A sample of her mind?" — Fairy Prince and Other Stories, Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
“That wee bag’s full of samples. — Mr. Standfast, John Buchan
“Here's a sample of real Art. — The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition, Rudyard Kipling

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