Definitions for archetype

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archetype ar·che·type

Spelling: [ahr-ki-tahyp]

IPA: /ˈɑr kɪˌtaɪp/

Archetype is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 475 anagrams from letters in archetype (aceehprty).

Definitions for archetype

noun

1. the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype.
2. (in Jungian psychology) a collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc., universally present in individual psyches.

Origin of archetype

1595-1605; Latin archetypum an original Greek archétypon a model, pattern (neuter of archétypos of the first mold, equivalent to arche- arche- + týp(os) mold,

Examples for archetype

Every episode ended with a heartfelt PSA, every character was an archetype, and every scene presented a new teenaged dilemma.

One program is the archetype for all the word processing that ever existed.

Such adaptations are, so to speak, grafted on the archetype.

Nay, more, it is not only our mirror but our archetype for every thing.

I believe an archetype was born in those years, that of the doughty British woman—proud, opinionated, but with a heart of gold.

In what relation does the archetype stand to the Creator himself?

With them we think of the artificial as the archetype; the earth-born as the erratic exception.

Your main character breaks free from the archetype of the African-American novel: David is not black.

Roll Royce—you would expect nothing less from such a British archetype, right?

The calavera, or decorated skull, is an archetype of Mexican popular culture.