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单词 compendia
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compendia in British English

(kəmˈpɛndɪə)
plural noun
compendium
 

compendium in British English

(kəmˈpɛndɪəm)
nounWord forms: plural -diums or -dia (-dɪə)
1.  British
a book containing a collection of useful hints
2.  British
a selection, esp of different games or other objects in one container
3. 
a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work
Word origin
C16: from Latin: a saving, literally: something weighed, from pendere to weigh

Examples of 'compendia' in a sentence
compendia

It was lined with books, especially encyclopaedias and compendia of visual aids.
Hilton, John Buxton THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
As such it fell comfortably into the sixteenth-century fashion for encyclopedic compendia.
The Times Literary Supplement (2015)
Sometimes compendia were put together quickly for a clearly defined group of readers.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
As well as his two monographs on the borough, he contributed a number of articles to other compendia.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Modern field guides owe more to herbaria than to medieval bestiaries, naive compendia that ascribed moral lessons to animals.
The Times Literary Supplement (2017)
He contributed more than 150 learned essays to compendia in the fields of political and economic theory, thought and action.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
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