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illustration has 4 distinct synonyms spread across 2 of its 4 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
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Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for illustration come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
an item of information that is typical of a class or group
“this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome”
a visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand