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Archetype
ˈɑːkɪtʌɪp
Archetype definitions
noun
archetype
archetypes
- 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"
- (in Jungian theory) a primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors, and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious
- a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology
"mythological archetypes of good and evil"