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archetypear‧che‧type /ˈɑːkɪtaɪp $ ˈɑːr-/ noun [countable usually singular]   archetypeOrigin: 1500-1600 Latin archetypum, from Greek, from archein ( ➔ ARCH-) + typos ‘type’ - The biblical Mary is a powerful cultural archetype whose story has spoken to women across the centuries.
- Each needs an archetype, a gold standard, to allow their specimens to be put in the correct cabinet.
- In the true manner of archetypes it was probably realized as a feedback symbol independently more than once.
- Innovation should be the correct interpretation of the archetype, the prototype.
- My conception of Il trovatore is that here are what Jung called archetypes.
- Thus, the value of bedtime snacks, of which milk and cookies are still the archetype.
a typical person or thing► typical · With his shorts and camera around his neck, he looked like a typical tourist. · "Is there a typical New York breakfast?" "Bagels and coffee." · On a typical day, the president receives more than 4,500 letters.· a typical American diner, with twangy-voiced waitresses and vinyl boothstypical of · This painting is typical of Manet's portraits of Morisot - a beautiful woman, gazing sadly out at the viewer. ► representative formal someone or something that is representative of the group that they belong to is typical of it, and shows what the others in the group are like: representative of: · These paintings are representative of the kind of work being done by young artists nowadays.· Would you say that his views were representative of the majority of French voters?representative sample: · For our survey we asked a representative sample of voters to give us their opinions. ► archetypal the archetypal person or thing is the most typical example of that kind of person or thing, and has all their most important qualities: · Indiana Jones is the archetypal adventure hero.· the archetypal pushy Hollywood mother ► classic a classic example of something is a very typical and very good example of it: classic of: · The misunderstanding was nobody's fault and was a classic example of bad communication.· The invention of the X-ray was a classic case of discovering something by accident.· She made the classic mistake of trying to drive away without releasing the hand brake. ► textbook case/example a situation in which things happen in a very typical and expected way: textbook case/example of: · The Apple Computer company was a textbook case for business schools about how two guys working out of a garage could change the world.· This is a textbook example of how Hollywood undermines its best ideas, by insisting on happy endings, even when they are completely implausible. ► stereotype a fixed idea which most people have in their minds about what people of a particular type or from a particular country are like, but which is not actually true: · The film is full of stereotypes: a stupid blonde, a fat American tourist, and a gay man with huge muscles.stereotype of: · Charles quite plainly did not fit the stereotype of a successful, high powered businessman.racial/sexual stereotype: · They rejected the sexual stereotype of blue for a boy and pink for a girl, and dressed their baby in other colors instead.· the racial stereotype of Asian girls as quiet and hard-working a perfect example of something, because it has all the most important qualities of things that belong to that typearchetype of France is the archetype of the centralized nation-state.—archetypal /ˌɑːkɪˈtaɪpəl◂ $ ˌɑːr-/ adjective: Byron was the archetypal Romantic hero. |