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ARCHETYPE
original, archetype, pilot
(noun) something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies; “this painting is a copy of the original”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
archetype (plural archetypes)
An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned; a prototype. [from mid 16th c.]
An ideal example of something; a quintessence.
(literature) A character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.
(psychology) According to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung: a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.
(textual criticism) A protograph (“original manuscript of a text from which all further copies derive”).
Usage notes
Traditionally, archetype refers to the model upon which something is based, but it has also come to mean an example of a personality archetype, particularly a fictional character in a story based on a well-established personality model. In this fashion, a character based on the Jesus archetype might be referred to as a "Jesus archetype". See eponym for a similar usage conflict.
Synonyms
• See model
Verb
archetype (third-person singular simple present archetypes, present participle archetyping, simple past and past participle archetyped)
To depict as, model using, or otherwise associate an object or subject with an archetype.
Source: Wiktionary
Ar"che*type, n. Etym: [L. archetypum, Gr. archétype. See Arch-, pref.]
1. The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed. The House of Commons, the archetype of all the representative assemblies which now meet. Macaulay. Types and shadows of that glorious archetype that was to come into the world. South.
2. (Coinage)
Definition: The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted.
3. (Biol.)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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