PARADIGM

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

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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

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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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