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Definition of 'archetype'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) archetype
the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; prototype.

2. archetype
(in Jungian psychology) an inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc., universally present in individual psyches.

Etymology: (1595–1605; < L archetypum < Gk archétypon, neut. of archétypos molded first, archetypal)

Definition of 'archetype'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) original, archetype, pilot
something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies
"this painting is a copy of the original"

Definition of 'archetype'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) archetype
the original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed

2. (noun) archetype
the standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted

3. (noun) archetype
the plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype

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