A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model.
Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule.
Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example).
Something that is representative of all such things in a group.
A person punished as a warning to others.
An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise in the application of the rule.
To be illustrated or exemplified (by).
An example serving as the model for such a pattern.
A pattern, a way of doing something, especially (now often derogatory) a pattern of thought, a system of beliefs, a conceptual framework.
A set of all forms which contain a common element, especially the set of all inflectional forms of a word or a particular grammatical category.