If you're talking about a typical example of something, call it the epitome. The cartoon character Garfield is the epitome of the fat, lazy, food obsessed cat.
A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement.
Noun
a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father"
Noun
a brief abstract (as of an article or book)
n.
A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced
within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief
summary; an abridgement.
n.
A compact or condensed representation of anything.
Epitome
[An] epitome of the contents of a very large book.2.
An epitome of English fashionable life.
A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome.
A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement.
Usage Examples
It is pretty amazing. My parents, who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. - who would have thought that they would have American kids on the Olympic team? I think that's the epitome of the Olympic dream.
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Other Usage ExamplesIf any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.