syllabus
noun
syl·la·bus ˈsi-lə-bəs 
plural syllabi ˈsi-lə-ˌbī
-ˌbē
or syllabuses 1
: a summary outline of a discourse, treatise, or course of study or of examination requirements
2
: headnote sense 2
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web In Georgia, a school district came under fire from parents for removing a controversial syllabus from the website, which said Advanced Placement (AP) classes will teach critical race theory and Marxism. 
Kelsey Koberg, Fox News, 27 Aug. 2022 Schedules were disorganized and courses did not follow a set syllabus. Lisa Rein And Yeganeh Torbati, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Aug. 2022 Manrique de Lara and colleagues who teach future geneticists at UNAM’s Center for Genomic Sciences have started to incorporate parachute science, scientific colonialism, and other bad practices into the syllabus of their classes. Emiliano Rodríguez Mega, STAT, 12 Aug. 2022 The book that: …should be on every college syllabus: Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping. Riza Cruz, ELLE, 16 Aug. 2022 Here’s a look ahead at some of the new offerings students can expect on the syllabus. Lindsay Ellis, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022 Aviators from the Air Force and Navy often start their training flying on a Northrop T-38 jet, often using a similar syllabus to one that’s been around since the 1960s. Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2022 Is there sort of like a syllabus to go with each season of the show? Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022 In a final Supreme Court ruling, a syllabus appears ahead of the opinion in order to introduce everything that’s to follow. Erin Spencer Sairam, Forbes, 24 June 2022 See More
Kelsey Koberg, Fox News, 27 Aug. 2022 Schedules were disorganized and courses did not follow a set syllabus. Lisa Rein And Yeganeh Torbati, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Aug. 2022 Manrique de Lara and colleagues who teach future geneticists at UNAM’s Center for Genomic Sciences have started to incorporate parachute science, scientific colonialism, and other bad practices into the syllabus of their classes. Emiliano Rodríguez Mega, STAT, 12 Aug. 2022 The book that: …should be on every college syllabus: Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping. Riza Cruz, ELLE, 16 Aug. 2022 Here’s a look ahead at some of the new offerings students can expect on the syllabus. Lindsay Ellis, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022 Aviators from the Air Force and Navy often start their training flying on a Northrop T-38 jet, often using a similar syllabus to one that’s been around since the 1960s. Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2022 Is there sort of like a syllabus to go with each season of the show? Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022 In a final Supreme Court ruling, a syllabus appears ahead of the opinion in order to introduce everything that’s to follow. Erin Spencer Sairam, Forbes, 24 June 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Late Latin, alteration of Latin sillybus label for a book, from Greek sillybos
First Known Use
circa 1656, in the meaning defined at sense 1
syllabi
noun
variants or syllabuses
as in surveys
a list of the topics or books that will be studied in a course started the first class by going over the syllabus Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- surveys
- sketches
- outlines
- summaries
- summarizations
- overviews
- resumes
- résumés
- abstracts
- synopses
- précis
- reviews
- resumés
- briefs
- recapitulations
- digests
- summations
- aperçus
- recaps
- tabloids
- abbreviations
- condensations
- sums
- capsules
- wrap-ups
- abridgments
- bowdlerizations
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- elaborations
- enlargements
- expansions
- amplifications