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   archetype

   /ˈɑːkɪtʌɪp/

   noun

   • 1. a very typical example of a certain person or thing: "he was the archetype of the old-style football club chairman"
   • ▪ an original which has been imitated; a prototype: "an instrument which was the archetype of the early flute"
   • 2. (in Jungian theory) a primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors, and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious.
   • 3. a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology: "mythological archetypes of good and evil"

   Word Origin mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek arkhetupon ‘something moulded first as a model’, from arkhe- ‘primitive’ + tupos ‘a model’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. archetypical adjective
   • 2. archetypically adverb

   Scrabble Points: 19

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