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Archetype

Archetype Meaning & Definition
Archetype Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Archetype?

[n] an original model on which something is patterned

Synonyms | Synonyms for Archetype: original | pilot

Related Terms | Find terms related to Archetype: aesthetic form | antetype | antitype | archetypal pattern | art form | beau ideal | biotype | blind impulse | build | cast | classic | classic example | collective unconscious | complex idea | configuration | conformation | criterion | cut | engram | epitome | eternal object | eternal universal | example | exemplar | fashion | father image | figuration | figure | form | formal cause | format | formation | frame | fugleman | fugler | Geistesgeschichte | genotype | genre | Hegelian idea | highest category | history of ideas | id | ideal | idealism | ideate | ideatum | idee-force | image | imago | imitatee | impression | impulse | inborn proclivity | innate idea | inner form | innovation | instinct | Kantian idea | layout | lead | libido | make | makeup | masterpiece | masterwork | matrix | memory | memory trace | mirror | modality | mode | model | mold | natural instinct | natural tendency | new departure | noosphere | noumenon | original | paradigm | paragon | pattern | pattern of perfection | percept | pilot model | Platonic form | Platonic idea | precedent | primitive self | prototype | quintessence | regulative first principle | representative | rule | set | shape | significant form | simple idea | stamp | standard | structure | style | subconscious urge | subsistent form | the Absolute | the Absolute Idea | the realized ideal | the Self-determined | transcendent idea | transcendent nonempirical concept | transcendent universal | traumatic trace | turn | type | type species | type specimen | unconscious memory | universal | universal concept | universal essence | unlearned capacity | unreasoning impulse | urtext | very model | vital impulse

See Also | example | model

Archetype In Webster's Dictionary

\Ar"che*type\ ([aum]r"k[-e]*t[imac]p), n. [L. archetypum, Gr. 'arche`typon, fr. 'arche`typos stamped first and as model; 'arche = 'archi + ty`pos stamp, figure, pattern, ty`ptein to strike: cf. F. arch['e]type. See {Arch-}, pref.] 1. The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed. The House of Commons, the archetype of all the representative assemblies which now meet. --Macaulay. Types and shadows of that glorious archetype that was to come into the world. --South. 2. (Coinage) The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted. 3. (Biol.) 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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