exemplar

plural exemplars

1. Something fit to be imitated; an ideal, a worthy model or role model: a desirable example.

   Michelangelo's "David" is an exemplar of Renaissance sculpture.

   1 more example

   A ray of light amid all this nonsense was Gwyn Topham's piece in the Guardian, which was timely, measured, accurate and of appropriate tone. That this single report stood out so clearly as an exemplar is a scathing comment in itself on the volumes of drivel surrounding it.

   2020 August 26, Nigel Harris, “Comment Special: Catastrophe at Carmont”, in Rail, page 4

   Synonyms: archetype, epitome, example, icon, model, paradigm, paragon, pattern

2. Something typical or representative; an example that typifies its class.
3. A pattern after which others should be made; an archetype.
4. A well-known use of a scientific theory.
5. A manuscript used by a scribe to make a handwritten copy; the original document to be reproduced in a copy machine.
6. A copy of a book or piece of writing.

   To amend the same [default] according to the true exemplars.

   1539, Richard Taverner, “Preface”, in Taverner's Bible

comparative more exemplar · superlative most exemplar

1. obsoleteExemplary.

   In our age we have no patterne of motherly affection more exemplare, than yours.

   1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC