Archetype - English meaning

ˈɑː.kɪ.taɪp

Archetype – definitions in English dictionary

noun
A very typical example of a certain person or thing.
Usage examples:
He was the archetype of the old-style football club chairman
noun
(in jungian theory) a primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors, and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious.
Usage examples:
According to carl jung, the collective unconscious contains archetypes, universal mental predisposi…
noun
A recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology.
Usage examples:
Mythological archetypes of good and evil

noun
The original model or a perfect example of something

noun
A typical example of something, or the original model of something from which others are copied
Usage examples:
The united states is the archetype of a federal society.

Archetype translation into English

Archetype: translate from English into Chinese

原型, 榜样

Archetype: translate from English into Dutch

Archetype

Archetype: translate from English into French

Archétype

Archetype: translate from English into German

Archetyp, Urbild, Urtyp, Prototyp

Archetype: translate from English into Hindi

मूलरूप आदर्श, आदिरूप, आद्यस्वरूप, मूलादर्श, असली नमूना

Archetype: translate from English into Italian

Archetipo

Archetype: translate from English into Korean

원형

Archetype: translate from English into Russian

Архетип, Образец, Прототип, Оригинал

Archetype: translate from English into Spanish

Arquetipo, Prototipo

Word origin

mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek arkhetupon ‘something moulded first as a model’, from arkhe- ‘primitive’ + tupos ‘a model’.

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Archetype – similar words

archetypes

ˈɑː.kɪ.taɪp

noun
A very typical example of a certain person or thing.
Usage examples:
He was the archetype of the old-style football club chairman

noun
The original model or a perfect example of something

noun
A typical example of something, or the original model of something from which others are copied
Usage examples:
The united states is the archetype of a federal society.

Archetypes - all meanings in English

archetypal

ˌɑː.kɪˈtaɪ.pəl

adjective
Very typical of a certain kind of person or thing.
Usage examples:
The archetypal country doctor

adjective
Typical of an original thing from which others are copied
Usage examples:
An archetypal english gentleman, they live in an archetypal country village.

Archetypal - all meanings in English

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