Words Like ARCHETYPE
We have put together a list of words that are similar to ARCHETYPE.
4 Alternative Words Similar to archetype
1 examples of archetype
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the vertebrate archetype
10 definitions of archetype
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The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed.
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The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted.
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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.
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something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies
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An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype: "'Frankenstein' . . . 'Dracula' . . . 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' . . . the archetypes that have influenced all subsequent horror stories” ( New York Times).
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An ideal example of a type; quintessence: an archetype of the successful entrepreneur.
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In Jungian psychology, an inherited pattern of thought or symbolic imagery derived from the past collective experience and present in the individual unconscious.
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A model or first form; the original pattern or model after which a thing is made; especially, a Platonic idea, or immaterial preëxisting exemplar of a natural form.
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In coining, the standard weight by which others are adjusted: now called the prototype.
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In comparative anatomy, a primitive generalized plan of structure assumed to have been subsequently modified or lost by differentiation and specialization: as, the vertebrate archetype.