archetypal Meaning, Definition & Usage
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adjective satellite representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned
prototypic; archetypical; prototypal; prototypical.
- archetypal patterns
- she was the prototypal student activist
WordNet
Ar"che*ty`pal adjective
Definitions
Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original. "One archetypal mind." Gudworth.✍ Among Platonists, the archetypal world is the world as it existed as an idea of God before the creation.