archetypal
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kɪˈtaɪ
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archetypal or archetypical (ˌɑːkɪˈtaɪpəl, ˌɑːkɪˈtɪpɪkəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
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| 1. | perfect or typical as a specimen of something |
| 2. | being an original model or pattern or a prototype |
| 3. | psychoanal of or relating to Jungian archetypes |
| 4. | constantly recurring as a symbol or motif in literature, painting, etc |
| archetypical or archetypical | |
| —adj | |
| archetypally or archetypical | |
| —adv | |
| archetypically or archetypical | |
| —adv | |
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Archetypal
is always a great word to know.
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| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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Example sentences
Vampires sheds light on why this archetypal image has haunted us for so long.
These archetypal eerie animals are the only mammals that subsist solely on blood.
The second group covers private entrepreneurs, their employees and archetypal small shopkeepers.
Not even oil, the archetypal industrial commodity, quite conforms to the super-cycle theory.
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