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Paradigm
ˈparədʌɪm
Paradigm definitions
noun
paradigm
paradigms
- a typical example or pattern of something; a pattern or model
"society's paradigm of the ‘ideal woman’"
specimen sample exemplar exemplification instance case representative case typical case case in point illustration- a world view underlying the theories and methodology of a particular scientific subject
"the discovery of universal gravitation became the paradigm of successful science"
- a set of linguistic items that form mutually exclusive choices in particular syntactic roles
"English determiners form a paradigm: we can say ‘a book’ or ‘his book’ but not ‘a his book’"
- (in the traditional grammar of Latin, Greek, and other inflected languages) a table of all the inflected forms of a particular verb, noun, or adjective, serving as a model for other words of the same conjugation or declension