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archetype
/ˈɑɹkɪˌtaɪp/
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3 syllables · Stress on syllable 1
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“The character is an archetype of the wandering hero.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does archetype mean?
noun
- An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned.
- An ideal example of something; a quintessence.
- A character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.
More meanings (3)
noun
- According to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung: a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.
- A protograph (“original manuscript of a text from which all further copies derive”).
verb
- To depict as, model using, or otherwise associate an object or subject with an archetype.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɑɹkɪˌtaɪp/
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ARCHETYPAL.—Of or belonging to the Archetype, or ideal primitive form upon which all the beings of a group seem to be organised.
He takes care that his idea be conformable to this archetype, and intends the name should stand for an idea so conformable.
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For to imagine that the archetype was created would be blasphemy, seeing that the world is the noblest of creations, and God is the best of causes.
There is nothing in the nature of a parallel, a type and its archetype, between that which is without him and that which is within, the impresser and the impression.
If we suppose that the ancient progenitor, the archetype as it may be called, of all mammals, had its limbs constructed on the existing general pattern, for whatever purpose they served, we can at once perceive the plain signification of the homologous construction of the limbs throughout the whole class.