archetype

Speech parts

1. archetype - Noun

2. archetype - Verb

Meaning

The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed.

The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted.

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 dictionary

Synonyms

original pilot paragon patten avatar nonesuch imago example form type character standard model idea image
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Antonyms

smut foreign dung mire crud bottom
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Hypernyms

example model

Hyponyms

model

Phrases with the word

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Examples

this painting is a copy of the original Source: Internet

A group of memories and interpretations associated with an archetype is a complex ( e.g. a mother complex associated with the mother archetype). Source: Internet

Also in the mix is Mary Kelly, the head of an evil gang of Laaaaaahndaaahhn geezers, cast and modelled to look like a British soap archetype. Source: Internet

As Saint Basil famously proclaimed, honour or veneration of the icon always passes to its archetype. Source: Internet

Art and literature Judas has become the archetype of the betrayer in Western culture, with some role in virtually all literature telling the Passion story. Source: Internet

And if everything is “worse than Watergate,” Watergate becomes run-of-the-mill political intrigue, not the archetype of presidential corruption. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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