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n. An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype: "'Frankenstein' . . . 'Dracula' . . . 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' . . . the archetypes that have influenced all subsequent horror stories” ( New York Times).

n. An ideal example of a type; quintessence: an archetype of the successful entrepreneur.

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

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

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

n. An ideal example of something; a quintessence.

n. 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.

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

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

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

n. 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.

n. 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.

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

n. 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.

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

n. something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies

"Instead he views the type as what he calls the archetype of the kind, defined as something that models all the tokens of a kind with respect to projectible questions but not something that admits of answers to individuating questions."

model    example   

original    pattern    model   

exemplar    groundwork    myth    phantasmagoria    underpinnings    symbolism