About The Word Paradigm
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Paradigm
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What's The Definition Of Paradigm?
[n] a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father"
[n] the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time; "he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm" [n] the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another) [n] systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word Synonyms | Synonyms for Paradigm: epitome | image | prototype | substitution class Related Terms | Find terms related to Paradigm: accidence | affix | affixation | allomorph | antetype | antitype | archetype | beau ideal | biotype | bound morpheme | classic example | conjugation | criterion | cutting | declension | derivation | difference of form | enclitic | epitome | example | exemplar | formative | free form | fugleman | fugler | genotype | IC analysis | ideal | imitatee | immediate constituent analysis | infix | infixation | inflection | lead | mirror | model | morph | morpheme | morphemic analysis | morphemics | morphology | morphophonemics | original | pattern | precedent | prefix | prefixation | proclitic | prototype | radical | representative | root | rule | standard | stem | suffix | suffixation | theme | type | type species | type specimen | urtext | word-formation See Also | category | class | concentrate | example | family | imago | inflection | inflexion | model | perspective | position | view Paradigm In Webster's Dictionary \Par"a*digm\, n. [F. paradigme, L. paradigma, fr. Gr.
?, fr. ? to show by the side of, to set up as an example; ?
beside + ? to show. See {Para-}, and {Diction}.]
1. An example; a model; a pattern. [R.] ``The paradigms and
patterns of all things.'' --Cudworth.
2. (Gram.) An example of a conjugation or declension, showing
a word in all its different forms of inflection.
3. (Rhet.) An illustration, as by a parable or fable.
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