The meaning of EXAMPLE is a person or way of behaving that serves as a pattern to be imitated or not to be imitated. How to use example in a sentence.

Idiom set an example (Definition of example from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Example, sample, specimen refer to an individual phenomenon taken as representative of a type, or to a part representative of the whole. Example is used of an object, condition, etc., that is …

An example is a typically representative part that demonstrates the character of the whole: "Of the despotism to which unrestrained military power leads we have plenty of examples from …

If you refer to a person or their behavior as an example to other people, you mean that he or she behaves in a good or correct way that other people should copy.

Example definition: One that is representative of a group as a whole.

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