Archetype Definition
ärkĭ-tīp
archetypes
noun
archetypes
An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype.
American Heritage
The original pattern, or model, from which all other things of the same kind are made; prototype.
Webster's New World
An ideal example of a type; quintessence.
An archetype of the successful entrepreneur.
American Heritage
A perfect example of a type or group.
Webster's New World
In Jungian psychology, any of several innate ideas or patterns in the psyche, expressed in dreams, art, etc. as certain basic symbols or images.
Webster's New World
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verb
To depict as, model using or otherwise associate a subject or object with an archetype.
Wiktionary
Origin of Archetype
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From Old French architipe (French archétype), from Latin archetypum, from Ancient Greek ἀρχέτυπον (arkhetupon, “pattern, model”) neuter of ἀρχέτυπος (arkhetupos, “first-moulded”), from ἀρχή (arkhē, “first, origin ”) + τύπος (typos, “sort, type, press”).
From Wiktionary
Latin archetypum from Greek arkhetupon from neuter of arkhetupos original arkhe-, arkhi- archi- tupos model, stamp
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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