Definitions for archetypes

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archetypes ar·che·type

Spelling: [ahr-ki-tahyp]

IPA: /ˈɑr kɪˌtaɪp/

Archetypes is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 1004 anagrams from letters in archetypes (aceehprsty).

Definitions for archetypes

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 archetypes

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 archetypes

As we become adults, we have this need to marginalize youth and make them into archetypes.

The Greek anthology and Martial have furnished the archetypes of our epigrams and of our epitaphs.

The archetypes of evil Bond vanquishes are all world-class crooks.

Ask a liberal to describe a “crazy Republican,” and their description is likely to fit one of two archetypes.

Theocritus and Virgil have furnished the archetypes for our eclogues and pastorals.

To say that the Universals are archetypes, and that Particulars partake in them, is unmeaning, and mere poetic metaphor.

They are transcripts, types—the archetypes are in us, and eternal.

Longhi speaks of him as "most unfaithful to his archetypes," and, "whatever the originals, being always Bartolozzi."

For whatever reason, I think about that a lot—two American archetypes.

Sure, the characters are more like archetypes than human beings.