Archetype

  • 51ARCHETYPE —    a notion used by PLATO to signify the original FORM of things as contrasted with their APPEARANCE in the world. It was picked up by JUNG as a term for the collective representation of SYMBOLS found in art and dreams …

    Concise dictionary of Religion

  • 52archetype — ar·che·type || ɑːkɪtaɪp n. model, pattern …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 53archetype — [ α:kɪtʌɪp] noun 1》 a very typical example. 2》 an original model. 3》 Psychoanalysis (in Jungian theory) a primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious. 4》 a recurrent… …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 54archetype — n. Pattern, model, type, prototype, original, exemplar, example, protoplast, mirror, paragon …

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  • 55archetype — n 1. prototype, original, protoplast, first form; ancestor, forerunner, precursor, predecessor. 2. pattern, paradigm, form, mold, model; standard, example, exemplar, paragon, ideal …

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  • 56archetype — ar·che·type …

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  • 57archetype — n. (in Jungian psychology) an inherited idea or mode of thought supposed to be present in the unconscious mind and to derive from the experience of the whole human race, not from the life ex erience of the individual …

    The new mediacal dictionary

  • 58archetype — ar•che•type [[t]ˈɑr kɪˌtaɪp[/t]] n. 1) the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; prototype 2) psl (in Jungian psychology) an inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image,… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 59archetype — /ˈakətaɪp/ (say ahkuhtuyp) noun 1. a model or first form; the original pattern or model after which a thing is made. 2. someone or something adhering closely to the model or first form. 3. (in Jungian psychology) an inherited mode of perception… …

  • 60archetype —   n. original pattern.    ♦ archetypal, a …

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