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Syllabus

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. An outline or a summary of the main points of a text, lecture, or course of study.

n. Law A short statement preceding a report on an adjudged case and containing a summary of the court's rulings on each point involved.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A summary of topics which will be covered during an academic course, or a text or lecture.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A compendium containing the heads of a discourse, and the like; an abstract.

n. The headnote of a reported case; the brief statement of the points of law determined prefixed to a reported case. The opinion controls the syllabus, the latter being merely explanatory of the former.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A compendium containing the heads of a discourse, the main propositions of a course of lectures, etc.; an abstract; a table of statements contained in any writing, of a scheme of lessons, or the like.

n. In the Roman Catholic Church, a summary statement and enumeration of the points decided by an act or decree of ecclesiastical authority; specifically, a catalogue formulating eighty heresies condemned by Pope Pius IX. in 1864, annexed to the encyclical letter Quanta Cura. See the quotation.

n. Synonyms Compendium, Epitome. See abridgment.

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n. an integrated course of academic studies

Word Usage

"And it may sound like an easy-A elective, but the syllabus is actually pretty rigorous."

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syllabi

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