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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 | |
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| archetypally or archetypical | |
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| archetypal or archetypical (ˌɑːkɪˈtaɪpəl, ˌɑːkɪˈtɪpɪkəl) | |
| —adj | |
| 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 | |
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| archetype (ˈɑːkɪˌtaɪp) | |
| —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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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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