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archetype

/ˈɑː.kɪ.taɪp/

/ˈɑr.kɪ.taɪp/

Translations

archetypenoun

archetypes

/ˈɑː.kɪ.taɪp/

/ˈɑr.kɪ.taɪp/

архетип

The hero is a common archetype in literature.

Герой - это распространенный архетип в литературе.

Synonyms

archetypeverb

archetyped

Past Simple

archetyped

Past Participle

archetyping

Gerund

/ˈɑː.kɪ.taɪp/

/ˈɑːr.kɪ.taɪp/

Rare/archaic usage meaning ‘to model or serve as a prototype’

Synonyms

archetypeadjective

Used attributively before another noun to mean ‘serving as a typical example’

Synonyms

Definitions

archetypenoun

A very typical example of a certain person or thing.

The hero archetype is a common figure in literature, representing courage and self-sacrifice.

An original model or pattern from which others are copied or developed.

The architect's design served as an archetype for future buildings in the city.

In psychology, a collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc., universally present in individual psyches.

Carl Jung's theory of the collective unconscious includes the concept of archetypes, such as the mother or the wise old man.

In historical linguistics, a reconstructed ancestor form from which cognate words in different languages are derived.

The Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥(t) is the archetype for words meaning ‘ten’ in many descendant languages.

archetypeverb

To model or design as the original pattern for something; to establish as a prototype.

The engineer archetyped a new modular housing unit for rapid construction.

To serve as a typical example of; to embody the essential characteristics of something.

Her unwavering resolve archetypes the spirit of the movement.

archetypeadjective

Serving as a typical example or original model; archetypal (used attributively).

The study focuses on archetype patterns in mythic storytelling.