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kɪˌtaɪp
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archetype (ˈɑːkɪˌtaɪp) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a perfect or typical specimen |
| 2. | an original model or pattern; prototype |
| 3. | psychoanal one of the inherited mental images postulated by Jung as the content of the collective unconscious |
| 4. | a constantly recurring symbol or motif in literature, painting, etc |
| [C17: from Latin archetypum an original, from Greek arkhetupon, from arkhetupos first-moulded; see | |
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Word Origin & History
archetype
"original pattern from which copies are made," 1540s, from L. archetypum, from Gk. arkhetypon "pattern, model," neut. of adj. arkhetypos "first-moulded," from arkhe- "first" (see archon) + typos "model, type, blow, mark of a blow." Jungian psychology sense of "pervasive idea
or image from the collective unconscious" is from 1919.
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Medical Dictionary
archetype ar·che·type (är'kĭ-tīp')
n.
An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned.
In Jungian psychology, an inherited pattern of thought or symbolic image that is derived from the past collective experience of humanity and is present in the unconscious of the individual. Also called imago.
ar'che·typ'al (-tī'pəl) or ar'che·typ'ic (-tĭp'ĭk) or ar'che·typ'i·cal adj.
ar'che·typ'i·cal·ly adv.
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Cultural Dictionary
archetype [(ahr-ki-teyep)]An original model after which other similar things are patterned. In the psychology of Carl Jung, archetypes are the images, patterns, and symbols that rise out of the collective unconscious and appear in dreams, mythology, and fairy tales.
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Example sentences
It was a very funny take-off of the powerful but none-too-bright barbarian archetype.
It is difficult to establish any archetype for failure from the past two years.
It makes you think of one of his sculptures, cool and smooth and almost entirely white — a pure archetype of a boat.
Short-term electricity is the very archetype of an extremely inelastic good.
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