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Word: archetype
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Meaning:
Noun:
- An ideal example of something; a quintessence.
- An original model of which all other similar persons, objects, or concepts are merely derivative, copied, patterned, or emulated; a prototype
- psychology According to the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.
- usage conflict A person, story, concept, or object that is based on a known archetype; an archetypal character.
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Verb:
- To depict as, model using or otherwise associate a subject or object with an archetype.
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