All compendium synonyms

noun compendium

• abridgment — a shortened version of a written work
• sketch — a simply or hastily executed drawing or painting, especially a preliminary one, giving the essential features without the details.
• abstract — An abstract idea or way of thinking is based on general ideas rather than on real things and events.
• manual — done, operated, worked, etc., by the hand or hands rather than by an electrical or electronic device: a manual gearshift.
• brief — Something that is brief lasts for only a short time.
• summary — a comprehensive and usually brief abstract, recapitulation, or compendium of previously stated facts or statements.
• syllabus — an outline or other brief statement of the main points of a discourse, the subjects of a course of lectures, the contents of a curriculum, etc.
• survey — to take a general or comprehensive view of or appraise, as a situation, area of study, etc.
• conspectus — an overall view; survey
• overview — a general outline of a subject or situation; survey or summary.
• handbook — a book of instruction or guidance, as for an occupation; manual: a handbook of radio.
• guide — to assist (a person) to travel through, or reach a destination in, an unfamiliar area, as by accompanying or giving directions to the person: He guided us through the forest.
• digest — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
• precis — a concise summary.
• apercu — outline
• pandect — pandects, a complete body or code of laws.
• collection — A collection of things is a group of similar things that you have deliberately acquired, usually over a period of time.
• compilation — A compilation is a book, CD, or programme that contains many different items that have been gathered together, usually ones which have already appeared in other places.
• set — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
• corpus — A corpus is a large collection of written or spoken texts that is used for language research.
• anthology — An anthology is a collection of writings by different writers published together in one book.
• collectanea — a collection of excerpts from one or more authors; miscellany; anthology
• album — An album is a record with about 25 minutes of music on each side. You can also refer to a collection of songs that is available on a record or CD as an album.