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Webster 1913 Edition
Archetype
Ar′che-type
(är′kē̍-tīp)
, Noun.
[L.
archetypum
, Gr. ἀρχέτυπον
, fr. ἀρχέτυποσ
stamped first and as model; ἀρχε
= ἀρχι
+ τύποσ
stamp, figure, pattern, τύπτειν
to strike: cf. F. archétype
. 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
Webster 1828 Edition
Archetype
'ARCHETYPE
,Noun.
1.
The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made; as, a tree is the archetype or pattern of our idea of that tree.2.
Among minters, the standard weight, by which others are adjusted.3.
Among Platonists, the archetypal world is the world as it existed in the idea of God, before the creation.Definition 2024
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See also: archetype