prototype, paradigm, epitome, image
(noun) a standard or typical example; “he is the prototype of good breeding”; “he provided America with an image of the good father”
paradigm
(noun) the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time; “he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm”
paradigm
(noun) systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
Source: WordNet® 3.1
paradigm (plural paradigms)
A pattern, a way of doing something, especially (now often pejorative) a pattern of thought, a system of beliefs, a conceptual framework.
Synonyms: model, worldview
An example serving as the model for such a pattern.
Synonyms: template, exemplar, posterboy
(linguistics) A set of all forms which contain a common element, especially the set of all inflectional forms of a word or a particular grammatical category.
• (exemplar): exemplar, model
• programming paradigm
Source: Wiktionary
Par"a*digm, n. Etym: [F. paradigme, L. paradigma, fr. Gr. Para-, and Diction.]
1. An example; a model; a pattern. [R.] "The paradigms and patterns of all things." Cudworth.
2. (Gram.)
Definition: An example of a conjugation or declension, showing a word in all its different forms of inflection.
3. (Rhet.)
Definition: An illustration, as by a parable or fable.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 December 2024
(noun) small asexual fruiting body resembling a cushion or blister consisting of a mat of hyphae that is produced on a host by some fungi
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
