archetype - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'archetype' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Archetype

[ n.]

- 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.

Meaning of 'archetype' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . archetype

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies

Example in sentence:

this painting is a copy of the original

Nearby Words:

arc arcade arcaded arcadia arcadian arcadic arcana arcane arcanum arcboutant

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Archetypes
According to Jung, archetypes means universal symbolic representations of a particular person, object, or experience (such as

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