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archetype
CEFRC2
/ˈɑːkɪtaɪp/
noun
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In plain English
- 01
noun
A perfect or typical example of a particular kind of person or thing.
- 02
noun
Extra detailA character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.
Examples
Mr. Jackson fits the archetype of a wizard.
Near-synonym: prototype (sometimes synonymous)
At a glance
Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
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- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 2
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsAn ideal example of something; a quintessence.
An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned.
According to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung: a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.
More examples
In contextHis collaborator was Robert Singer, a professor of English and film studies at Kingsborough Community College, who lamented this week that he and his fellow Brooklynites "have been archetyped to death."
The outstanding importance of this manuscript for the text of Aeschylus has long been recognized. In the last century some scholars even persuaded themselves that it was the archetype of the whole extant tradition.
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Origin
noun
From Old French architipe (modern French archétype), from Latin archetypum (“original”), from Ancient Greek ἀρχέτυπον (arkhétupon, “model, pattern”), the neuter form of ἀρχέτυπος (arkhétupos, “first-moulded”), from ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “beginning, origin”) (from ἄρχω (árkhō, “to begin; to lead, rule”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ergʰ- (“to begin; to command, rule”)) + τῠ́πος (tŭ́pos, “blow, pressing; sort, type”) (from τύπτω (túptō, “to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- (“to push; to stick”)).