Specimen
Type
Type noun - A number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common.
Usage example: what type of people do you generally hang out with?
Specimen is a synonym for type in example topic. You can use "Specimen" instead a noun "Type", if it concerns topics such as model, class, simulation.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- Moreover, it carries implications that the individual being praised, or 'praised', is an exceptional specimen that proves the general inferiority of their racial-national type to the racial-national type of the praise-giver.
- In taxonomy, the Ur-Example of a newly-classified species is called a "type specimen".
Source: Ur-Example -
The heroine in The Secret Life Of Bees has what might as well be the type specimen for the realistic fiction subtrope.
Source: Missing Mom
Cite this Source
Type and Specimen. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/specimen/type
Specimen & Type. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/specimen/type>.
Type or Specimen. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/specimen/type.
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