The expression ācoffee breakā was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
PARADIGM
prototype, paradigm, epitome, image
(noun) a standard or typical example; āhe is the prototype of good breedingā; āhe provided America with an image of the good fatherā
paradigm
(noun) the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time; āhe framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigmā
paradigm
(noun) systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
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.
Synonyms
• (exemplar): exemplar, model
Hyponyms
• 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
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ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., āthe father of the brideā instead of āthe brideās fatherā
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