Epitome /(?)/

E·pit·o·me

Epitome

n.

pl. Epitomes

  1. 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.
    [An] epitome of the contents of a very large book.
    — Sydney Smith.
  2. A compact or condensed representation of anything; something possessing conspicuously or to a high degree the qualities of a class.
    An epitome of English fashionable life.
    A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome.