specimen
/ˈspɛsɪmɪn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.72 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
noun
An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
noun
An individual instance that represents a class; an example.
noun
A sample, especially one used for diagnostic analysis.
Example Sentences
- "early specimens of the art of Picasso"
- "a specimen of my own handwriting"
- ""You're a nice specimen for a clergyman," he said at length, "with your preachin" an" your psalm-singin', an" your Sunday coat on.""
- "It has been a common misinterpretation by both Marxists and anti-Marxists to suppose that he regarded human beings merely as specimens of social classes, and that the 'restoration of their species-essence' meant the annihilation of individuality or its reduction to a common social nature."
- "To assure a defendant's acquittal, a lawyer usually needed only to convince the jury that the victim was a pretty sorry specimen of a human being."
- "such a loathsome specimen of humanity"
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: *speḱ-