Archetype

What do we mean by archetype?

An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype. noun

An ideal example of a type; quintessence. noun

In Jungian psychology, an inherited pattern of thought or symbolic imagery derived from past collective experience and present in the individual unconscious. noun

A model or first form; the original pattern or model after which a thing is made; especially, a Platonic idea, or immaterial preëxisting exemplar of a natural form. noun

In coining, the standard weight by which others are adjusted: now called the prototype. noun

In comparative anatomy, a primitive generalized plan of structure assumed to have been subsequently modified or lost by differentiation and specialization: as, the vertebrate archetype. noun

The original form from which a class of related forms in plants or animals may be supposed to have descended. noun

The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed. noun

The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted. noun

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. noun

An original model of which all other similar persons, objects, or concepts are merely derivative, copied, patterned, or emulated; a prototype noun

A character, story, or object that is based on a known character, story, or object. noun

An ideal example of something; a quintessence. noun

According to the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity. noun

To depict as, model using or otherwise associate a subject or object with an archetype. verb

Something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies noun

An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned; a prototype.

An ideal example of something; a quintessence.

A character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.

According to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung: a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.

(textual criticism) A protograph.

Words that are spelled similarly to archetype:
archetype, archtype, architype, archetypal, archetypes, archetypic.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word archetype:
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Words that rhyme with archetype:
stereotype, pipe, type, hype, prototype, snipe, stripe, ripe, swipe, tripe, gripe, wipe, phenotype, skype, tintype, knipe, stipe, sipe, genotype, blype, bagpipe, grype, tailpipe, pinstripe, gipe, cripe, slype, blowpipe, slipe, teletype, linotype, overripe, monotype, lipe, subtype, waste pipe, organ pipe, pitch pipe, ferrotype, clay pipe, drone pipe, half snipe, indian pipe, tobacco pipe, water pipe, roman type, flipe, peace pipe, exhaust pipe, flue pipe, reed pipe, shipe, blood type, briar pipe, service stripe, body type, fipple pipe, athletic type, soil pipe, tabor pipe, drilling pipe, great snipe, honeycomb tripe, melody pipe, woodcock snipe, common snipe, discharge pipe, whole snipe, syp.

Adjectives that are often used to describe archetype:
feminine, common, very, divine, female, single, jungian, universal, american, central, original, eternal, cultural, masculine, ideal, heavenly, literary, mythic, male, particular, celestial, perfect, ancient, spiritual, powerful, external, heroic, mythical, platonic, maternal, god, unconscious, pure, dominant, biblical, true, vertebrate, primordial, self, traditional, western, ultimate, basic, negative, psychological, historical, romantic, christian, classic, classical, positive, hypothetical, greek, mythological, magician, collective, familiar, primitive, corresponding, symbolic, wild, fundamental, contrasexual, timeless, cosmic, supreme, sacred, creative, century, conceptual, psychoid, primal, wise.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective archetype:
hero, economy, formation, image.

Words that sound like archetype:
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