1. archetype - Noun
2. archetype - Verb
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.
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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