Associations to the word «Exemplar»

Wiktionary

EXEMPLAR, noun. Something fit to be imitated; see ideal and model.
EXEMPLAR, noun. A role model.
EXEMPLAR, noun. Something typical or representative of a class; see example.
EXEMPLAR, noun. A pattern after which others should be made; see archetype.
EXEMPLAR, noun. A well known usage of a scientific theory.
EXEMPLAR, noun. A handwritten manuscript used by a scribe to make a handwritten copy; the original copy of what gets multiply reproduced in a copy machine.
EXEMPLAR, noun. A copy of a book or writing.
EXEMPLAR, adjective. (obsolete) Exemplary.

Dictionary definition

EXEMPLAR, noun. Something to be imitated; "an exemplar of success"; "a model of clarity"; "he is the very model of a modern major general".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope