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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Archetype \Ar"che*type\ ([aum]r"k[-e]*t[imac]p), n. [L. archetypum Gr 'arche`typon, fr 'arche`typos stamped first and as model; 'arche = 'archi + ty`pos stamp, figure, pattern, ty`ptein to strike: cf F. arch['e]type. See {Arch-}, pref.] 1. The original pattern or model of a work or the model from which a thing is made or formed. The House of Commons, the archetype of all the representative assemblies which now meet --Macaulay. Types and shadows of that glorious archetype that was to come into the world. --South. 2. (Coinage) The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted. 3. (Biol.) 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; as the vertebrate archetype. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: archetype n : an original model on which something is patterned [syn: {original}, {pilot}]
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