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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'archetype' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions archetype noun  An original model of which all other similar persons, objects, or concepts are merely derivative, copied, patterned, or emulated; a prototype (italbrac, usage conflict) A person, story, concept, or object that is based on a known archetype; and archetypal character. An ideal example of something; a quintessence. (italbrac, Jungian psychology) A pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity. verb (archetypes, archetyping, archetyped) To depict as, model using or otherwise associate a subject or object with an archetype. Etymology: :from archetypum, from arkhetypon "pattern, model" neut. of adj. arkhetypos "first-moulded", from - arkhe- "first" + typos "model, type, blow, mark of a blow".        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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