syllabus: Meaning and Definition of

syl•la•bus

1. 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.
1. a short summary of the legal basis of a court's decision appearing at the beginning of a reported case.
2. a book containing summaries of the leading cases in a legal field, used esp. by students.
3. (often cap.) Also calledthe list of 80 propositions condemned as erroneous by Pope Pius IX in 1864.