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TWL/NWL (Scrabble US/CA/TH)
SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK / ALL)
ENABLE (Words with Friends)

Meaning of instance

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  instance
      n 1: an occurrence of something; "it was a case of bad
           judgment"; "another instance occurred yesterday"; "but
           there is always the famous example of the Smiths" [syn:
           {case}, {instance}, {example}]
      2: an item of information that is typical of a class or group;
         "this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome";
         "there is an example on page 10" [syn: {example},
         {illustration}, {instance}, {representative}]
      v 1: clarify by giving an example of [syn: {exemplify},
           {illustrate}, {instance}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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