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English English Dictionary
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Result for Archetype
Archetype
(n.)
The original pattern or model of a work; or the model
from which a thing is made or formed.
Archetype
(n.)
The standard weight or coin by which others are
adjusted.
Archetype
(n.)
The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural
group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to
have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype.