Definition of archetype in English:

archetype

noun ˈɑːkɪtʌɪpˈɑrkəˌtaɪp

1A very typical example of a certain person or thing.
he was the archetype of the old-style football club chairman
Example sentencesExamples
- In this play each character represents a fragmented archetype, as well as personalities - the creator, the stranger, the lover, the dreamer.
- There is character development of a sort, but the Star Trek crew are more archetypes than they are people.
- As an archetype, she represents the Rule of Law.
- This is ultimately about simple leadership archetypes.
- Hemingway is remembered not only as one of America's most important writers, but as an archetype of a particular American genre of masculinity.
- Styling themselves the ‘Young Disciples’, Matthew, Peter and Paul represent three different archetypes of black male identity.
- They are resentment personified, archetypes of men with grudges against the world, who - unlike Macbeth - are thereby predisposed to evil.
- An eminent scientist and founder of top Pentagon contractor OsCorp, Norman Osborne / Green Goblin is the quintessential archetype of the greedy American capitalist.
- One cartoon discusses 60 + high school archetypes, and these teeny drawings capture the characters with perfect, hilarious economy.
- I think the reason I find this whole article so amusing is because it's the ultimate archetype of all news stories about weblogs.
- Caffey's Alberta is less a full-fledged personality than an archetype.
- These were archetypes meant to represent a type of human personality.
- Douglas Camp's forte is representing traditional African archetypes in a physical form that's pure narrative.
- In some senses, he represents the latest incarnation of an archetype that crops up time and again in popular music.
- They're also examples of two completely different archetypes of the baseball character.
- In fact, all of the dramatis personae are sketched as archetypes rather than fully developed characters - the noble and loyal warrior, the scheming courtesan, etc.
Synonyms
personification, embodiment, incarnation, paragon
1. 1.1 An original which has been imitated; a prototype.
  an instrument which was the archetype of the early flute
  Example sentencesExamples
  The music alludes to the sounds of the ancient string instrument through bold repeated chords at the outset, which are set against the antithesis of fugal imitation alluding to Bachian archetypes.
  Those who take Mozart's concerto as an archetype may find Rawsthorne's example a bit surprising.
  An instant classic of its kind, it was the lively and original archetype for fantasy across the board.
  Thoth, as the earlier archetype of Hermes and subsequently Mercury was a potent force in the Egyptian pantheon.
  Musui is the original archetype of man, modelled after the Santhal boy who was Radhakrishnan's first model at the art college in Santiniketan.
  For Socrates the act of communication is grounded in the world of original forms, archetypes, or abstract ideas.
  Synonyms
  typification, type, prototype, representative, stereotype
  original, pattern, model, standard, mould
  embodiment, exemplar, essence, quintessence, textbook example, paradigm, ideal, idea
2Psychoanalysis
(in Jungian theory) a primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors, and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious.
Example sentencesExamples
- Avatars portray universal human themes and ideas, similar to the dreams expression of archetypes from the collective unconscious
- Essentially, the theory can be stated as a psychological law: whenever a phenomenon is found to be characteristic of all human communities, it is an expression of an archetype of the collective unconscious.
- According to Carl Jung, the collective unconscious contains archetypes, universal mental predispositions not grounded in experience.
- Never perhaps until C. G. Jung do we find the concept of archetypes of the collective unconscious so clearly formulated.
- In most instances the neglected baby is the Jungian archetype of the divine child.
3A recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology.
mythological archetypes of good and evil
Example sentencesExamples
- The wider significance of archetypes in literature was explored by N. Frye.
- Romeo and Juliet is the archetype of literary romance and as a result, this theme has appeared in countless songs.
- The snake in the garden, then, is many things: real and present danger, archetype, and theological symbol.
- In the same way traditional literature possesses archetypes, modern fictional works can hold these recurring images of universal significance as well.
- Joseph Campbell, in his work The Hero with a Thousand Faces, examines the mythological hero's journey and its attending archetypes.
- In Aion, he concludes that the astrological fish is a symbol of the archetype of the Self.
- By focusing too tightly on symbols and archetypes, Werness sometimes neglects artistic process and unique aspects of cultural significance.
- The archetype of the domineering, meddling woman persists in folk motifs and literature throughout history and across cultures.
- Western culture gives us many examples of the archetype of the Wicked Queen.
- Duncan and Jess came to artistic maturity together, ever expanding and refining a study of world literature and art focused on myths, symbols and archetypes.
- Much like the book, the movie uses symbolism and archetypes extremely well.
- Mythologists have long been aware of the fact that certain motifs or archetypes and even whole plots are found in cultures that are not geographically connected.
- Frye's talk of literary archetypes and symbols, his penchant for diagrams that looked like astrological charts, his love of the mystic poet William Blake, all aroused McLuhan's suspicions.
- Jogen Chowdhury is more direct, eschewing the archetype or the symbolic for the specific and explicit in his paintings.
- The symbolism and archetypes he's playing with are not what you'll usually find in comics, which is why he makes interesting comics.
- So a story contains a frame, plot, structure, one or more characters and conflict, and is also likely to contain insight and archetypes, symbols and motifs, stakes and obstacles, a premise and themes.
- Mythology, Jung claimed, bases its stories on the archetypes.

Derivatives

archetypical

adjectiveɑːkɪˈtɪpɪk(ə)lˌɑrk(ə)ˈtɪpɪk(ə)l

What makes it additionally interesting is that it is a very archetypical Scottish story.
Example sentencesExamples
- Its style, archetypical characters and comic situations are given their full measure and mirth by the Bell Shakespeare Company, albeit with a slightly modern twist.
- One paralyzed by his own frustration with the world, the other a sworn couch potato who makes a religion out of channel surfing, the two men are the archetypical bad roommates.
- Unpublished letters by William Wordsworth's sister-in-law offering fresh insights into the life and times of the archetypical Lake District poet have been handed over to The Wordsworth Trust.
- Not exactly the archetypical starving writer, is she?

archetypically

adverb

California is possibly the most archetypically American destination, more so even than Henry Roth's New York.
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘It's so utterly ultra archetypically British that it's comical,’ Gray says.
- The Price, a tale of two brothers estranged for many years in the wake of the fallout from the US stock market crash of 1929, sparkles with archetypically American wisecracking wit.
- A third-generation business, staffed exclusively by family members, it boasted a menu of archetypically heavy New England cuisine.
- Rabbits are archetypically tricksters, but Smith's hares also have gentler qualities: ‘They have a stillness, they are quiet.’

Origin

Mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek arkhetupon 'something moulded first as a model', from arkhe- 'primitive' + tupos 'a model'.

Definition of archetype in US English:

archetype

nounˈɑrkəˌtaɪpˈärkəˌtīp

1A very typical example of a certain person or thing.
the book is a perfect archetype of the genre
Example sentencesExamples
- As an archetype, she represents the Rule of Law.
- This is ultimately about simple leadership archetypes.
- They're also examples of two completely different archetypes of the baseball character.
- There is character development of a sort, but the Star Trek crew are more archetypes than they are people.
- I think the reason I find this whole article so amusing is because it's the ultimate archetype of all news stories about weblogs.
- In fact, all of the dramatis personae are sketched as archetypes rather than fully developed characters - the noble and loyal warrior, the scheming courtesan, etc.
- One cartoon discusses 60 + high school archetypes, and these teeny drawings capture the characters with perfect, hilarious economy.
- These were archetypes meant to represent a type of human personality.
- In this play each character represents a fragmented archetype, as well as personalities - the creator, the stranger, the lover, the dreamer.
- Caffey's Alberta is less a full-fledged personality than an archetype.
- Hemingway is remembered not only as one of America's most important writers, but as an archetype of a particular American genre of masculinity.
- Styling themselves the ‘Young Disciples’, Matthew, Peter and Paul represent three different archetypes of black male identity.
- An eminent scientist and founder of top Pentagon contractor OsCorp, Norman Osborne / Green Goblin is the quintessential archetype of the greedy American capitalist.
- They are resentment personified, archetypes of men with grudges against the world, who - unlike Macbeth - are thereby predisposed to evil.
- In some senses, he represents the latest incarnation of an archetype that crops up time and again in popular music.
- Douglas Camp's forte is representing traditional African archetypes in a physical form that's pure narrative.
Synonyms
personification, embodiment, incarnation, paragon
1. 1.1 An original that has been imitated.
  the archetype of faith is Abraham
  Example sentencesExamples
  Musui is the original archetype of man, modelled after the Santhal boy who was Radhakrishnan's first model at the art college in Santiniketan.
  For Socrates the act of communication is grounded in the world of original forms, archetypes, or abstract ideas.
  Thoth, as the earlier archetype of Hermes and subsequently Mercury was a potent force in the Egyptian pantheon.
  An instant classic of its kind, it was the lively and original archetype for fantasy across the board.
  Those who take Mozart's concerto as an archetype may find Rawsthorne's example a bit surprising.
  The music alludes to the sounds of the ancient string instrument through bold repeated chords at the outset, which are set against the antithesis of fugal imitation alluding to Bachian archetypes.
  Synonyms
  typification, type, prototype, representative, stereotype
2. 1.2 A recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology.
  mythological archetypes of good and evil
  Example sentencesExamples
  Frye's talk of literary archetypes and symbols, his penchant for diagrams that looked like astrological charts, his love of the mystic poet William Blake, all aroused McLuhan's suspicions.
  In the same way traditional literature possesses archetypes, modern fictional works can hold these recurring images of universal significance as well.
  The wider significance of archetypes in literature was explored by N. Frye.
  Joseph Campbell, in his work The Hero with a Thousand Faces, examines the mythological hero's journey and its attending archetypes.
  In Aion, he concludes that the astrological fish is a symbol of the archetype of the Self.
  Duncan and Jess came to artistic maturity together, ever expanding and refining a study of world literature and art focused on myths, symbols and archetypes.
  Mythologists have long been aware of the fact that certain motifs or archetypes and even whole plots are found in cultures that are not geographically connected.
  The symbolism and archetypes he's playing with are not what you'll usually find in comics, which is why he makes interesting comics.
  Romeo and Juliet is the archetype of literary romance and as a result, this theme has appeared in countless songs.
  Mythology, Jung claimed, bases its stories on the archetypes.
  By focusing too tightly on symbols and archetypes, Werness sometimes neglects artistic process and unique aspects of cultural significance.
  Jogen Chowdhury is more direct, eschewing the archetype or the symbolic for the specific and explicit in his paintings.
  The snake in the garden, then, is many things: real and present danger, archetype, and theological symbol.
  The archetype of the domineering, meddling woman persists in folk motifs and literature throughout history and across cultures.
  So a story contains a frame, plot, structure, one or more characters and conflict, and is also likely to contain insight and archetypes, symbols and motifs, stakes and obstacles, a premise and themes.
  Western culture gives us many examples of the archetype of the Wicked Queen.
  Much like the book, the movie uses symbolism and archetypes extremely well.
3. 1.3Psychoanalysis (in Jungian psychology) a primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors, and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Avatars portray universal human themes and ideas, similar to the dreams expression of archetypes from the collective unconscious
  In most instances the neglected baby is the Jungian archetype of the divine child.
  According to Carl Jung, the collective unconscious contains archetypes, universal mental predispositions not grounded in experience.
  Essentially, the theory can be stated as a psychological law: whenever a phenomenon is found to be characteristic of all human communities, it is an expression of an archetype of the collective unconscious.
  Never perhaps until C. G. Jung do we find the concept of archetypes of the collective unconscious so clearly formulated.

Origin

Mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek arkhetupon ‘something moulded first as a model’, from arkhe- ‘primitive’ + tupos ‘a model’.

单词	archetype
释义	Definition of archetype in English: archetype noun ˈɑːkɪtʌɪpˈɑrkəˌtaɪp 1A very typical example of a certain person or thing. he was the archetype of the old-style football club chairman Example sentencesExamples In this play each character represents a fragmented archetype, as well as personalities - the creator, the stranger, the lover, the dreamer. There is character development of a sort, but the Star Trek crew are more archetypes than they are people. As an archetype, she represents the Rule of Law. This is ultimately about simple leadership archetypes. Hemingway is remembered not only as one of America's most important writers, but as an archetype of a particular American genre of masculinity. Styling themselves the ‘Young Disciples’, Matthew, Peter and Paul represent three different archetypes of black male identity. They are resentment personified, archetypes of men with grudges against the world, who - unlike Macbeth - are thereby predisposed to evil. An eminent scientist and founder of top Pentagon contractor OsCorp, Norman Osborne / Green Goblin is the quintessential archetype of the greedy American capitalist. One cartoon discusses 60 + high school archetypes, and these teeny drawings capture the characters with perfect, hilarious economy. I think the reason I find this whole article so amusing is because it's the ultimate archetype of all news stories about weblogs. Caffey's Alberta is less a full-fledged personality than an archetype. These were archetypes meant to represent a type of human personality. Douglas Camp's forte is representing traditional African archetypes in a physical form that's pure narrative. In some senses, he represents the latest incarnation of an archetype that crops up time and again in popular music. They're also examples of two completely different archetypes of the baseball character. In fact, all of the dramatis personae are sketched as archetypes rather than fully developed characters - the noble and loyal warrior, the scheming courtesan, etc. Synonyms personification, embodiment, incarnation, paragon 1.1 An original which has been imitated; a prototype. an instrument which was the archetype of the early flute Example sentencesExamples The music alludes to the sounds of the ancient string instrument through bold repeated chords at the outset, which are set against the antithesis of fugal imitation alluding to Bachian archetypes. Those who take Mozart's concerto as an archetype may find Rawsthorne's example a bit surprising. An instant classic of its kind, it was the lively and original archetype for fantasy across the board. Thoth, as the earlier archetype of Hermes and subsequently Mercury was a potent force in the Egyptian pantheon. Musui is the original archetype of man, modelled after the Santhal boy who was Radhakrishnan's first model at the art college in Santiniketan. For Socrates the act of communication is grounded in the world of original forms, archetypes, or abstract ideas. Synonyms typification, type, prototype, representative, stereotype original, pattern, model, standard, mould embodiment, exemplar, essence, quintessence, textbook example, paradigm, ideal, idea 2Psychoanalysis (in Jungian theory) a primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors, and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious. Example sentencesExamples Avatars portray universal human themes and ideas, similar to the dreams expression of archetypes from the collective unconscious Essentially, the theory can be stated as a psychological law: whenever a phenomenon is found to be characteristic of all human communities, it is an expression of an archetype of the collective unconscious. According to Carl Jung, the collective unconscious contains archetypes, universal mental predispositions not grounded in experience. Never perhaps until C. G. Jung do we find the concept of archetypes of the collective unconscious so clearly formulated. In most instances the neglected baby is the Jungian archetype of the divine child. 3A recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology. mythological archetypes of good and evil Example sentencesExamples The wider significance of archetypes in literature was explored by N. Frye. Romeo and Juliet is the archetype of literary romance and as a result, this theme has appeared in countless songs. The snake in the garden, then, is many things: real and present danger, archetype, and theological symbol. In the same way traditional literature possesses archetypes, modern fictional works can hold these recurring images of universal significance as well. Joseph Campbell, in his work The Hero with a Thousand Faces, examines the mythological hero's journey and its attending archetypes. In Aion, he concludes that the astrological fish is a symbol of the archetype of the Self. By focusing too tightly on symbols and archetypes, Werness sometimes neglects artistic process and unique aspects of cultural significance. The archetype of the domineering, meddling woman persists in folk motifs and literature throughout history and across cultures. Western culture gives us many examples of the archetype of the Wicked Queen. Duncan and Jess came to artistic maturity together, ever expanding and refining a study of world literature and art focused on myths, symbols and archetypes. Much like the book, the movie uses symbolism and archetypes extremely well. Mythologists have long been aware of the fact that certain motifs or archetypes and even whole plots are found in cultures that are not geographically connected. Frye's talk of literary archetypes and symbols, his penchant for diagrams that looked like astrological charts, his love of the mystic poet William Blake, all aroused McLuhan's suspicions. Jogen Chowdhury is more direct, eschewing the archetype or the symbolic for the specific and explicit in his paintings. The symbolism and archetypes he's playing with are not what you'll usually find in comics, which is why he makes interesting comics. So a story contains a frame, plot, structure, one or more characters and conflict, and is also likely to contain insight and archetypes, symbols and motifs, stakes and obstacles, a premise and themes. Mythology, Jung claimed, bases its stories on the archetypes. Derivatives archetypical adjectiveɑːkɪˈtɪpɪk(ə)lˌɑrk(ə)ˈtɪpɪk(ə)l What makes it additionally interesting is that it is a very archetypical Scottish story. Example sentencesExamples Its style, archetypical characters and comic situations are given their full measure and mirth by the Bell Shakespeare Company, albeit with a slightly modern twist. One paralyzed by his own frustration with the world, the other a sworn couch potato who makes a religion out of channel surfing, the two men are the archetypical bad roommates. Unpublished letters by William Wordsworth's sister-in-law offering fresh insights into the life and times of the archetypical Lake District poet have been handed over to The Wordsworth Trust. Not exactly the archetypical starving writer, is she? archetypically adverb California is possibly the most archetypically American destination, more so even than Henry Roth's New York. Example sentencesExamples ‘It's so utterly ultra archetypically British that it's comical,’ Gray says. The Price, a tale of two brothers estranged for many years in the wake of the fallout from the US stock market crash of 1929, sparkles with archetypically American wisecracking wit. A third-generation business, staffed exclusively by family members, it boasted a menu of archetypically heavy New England cuisine. Rabbits are archetypically tricksters, but Smith's hares also have gentler qualities: ‘They have a stillness, they are quiet.’ Origin Mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek arkhetupon 'something moulded first as a model', from arkhe- 'primitive' + tupos 'a model'. Definition of archetype in US English: archetype nounˈɑrkəˌtaɪpˈärkəˌtīp 1A very typical example of a certain person or thing. the book is a perfect archetype of the genre Example sentencesExamples As an archetype, she represents the Rule of Law. This is ultimately about simple leadership archetypes. They're also examples of two completely different archetypes of the baseball character. There is character development of a sort, but the Star Trek crew are more archetypes than they are people. I think the reason I find this whole article so amusing is because it's the ultimate archetype of all news stories about weblogs. In fact, all of the dramatis personae are sketched as archetypes rather than fully developed characters - the noble and loyal warrior, the scheming courtesan, etc. One cartoon discusses 60 + high school archetypes, and these teeny drawings capture the characters with perfect, hilarious economy. These were archetypes meant to represent a type of human personality. In this play each character represents a fragmented archetype, as well as personalities - the creator, the stranger, the lover, the dreamer. Caffey's Alberta is less a full-fledged personality than an archetype. Hemingway is remembered not only as one of America's most important writers, but as an archetype of a particular American genre of masculinity. Styling themselves the ‘Young Disciples’, Matthew, Peter and Paul represent three different archetypes of black male identity. An eminent scientist and founder of top Pentagon contractor OsCorp, Norman Osborne / Green Goblin is the quintessential archetype of the greedy American capitalist. They are resentment personified, archetypes of men with grudges against the world, who - unlike Macbeth - are thereby predisposed to evil. In some senses, he represents the latest incarnation of an archetype that crops up time and again in popular music. Douglas Camp's forte is representing traditional African archetypes in a physical form that's pure narrative. Synonyms personification, embodiment, incarnation, paragon 1.1 An original that has been imitated. the archetype of faith is Abraham Example sentencesExamples Musui is the original archetype of man, modelled after the Santhal boy who was Radhakrishnan's first model at the art college in Santiniketan. For Socrates the act of communication is grounded in the world of original forms, archetypes, or abstract ideas. Thoth, as the earlier archetype of Hermes and subsequently Mercury was a potent force in the Egyptian pantheon. An instant classic of its kind, it was the lively and original archetype for fantasy across the board. Those who take Mozart's concerto as an archetype may find Rawsthorne's example a bit surprising. The music alludes to the sounds of the ancient string instrument through bold repeated chords at the outset, which are set against the antithesis of fugal imitation alluding to Bachian archetypes. Synonyms typification, type, prototype, representative, stereotype 1.2 A recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology. mythological archetypes of good and evil Example sentencesExamples Frye's talk of literary archetypes and symbols, his penchant for diagrams that looked like astrological charts, his love of the mystic poet William Blake, all aroused McLuhan's suspicions. In the same way traditional literature possesses archetypes, modern fictional works can hold these recurring images of universal significance as well. The wider significance of archetypes in literature was explored by N. Frye. Joseph Campbell, in his work The Hero with a Thousand Faces, examines the mythological hero's journey and its attending archetypes. In Aion, he concludes that the astrological fish is a symbol of the archetype of the Self. Duncan and Jess came to artistic maturity together, ever expanding and refining a study of world literature and art focused on myths, symbols and archetypes. Mythologists have long been aware of the fact that certain motifs or archetypes and even whole plots are found in cultures that are not geographically connected. The symbolism and archetypes he's playing with are not what you'll usually find in comics, which is why he makes interesting comics. Romeo and Juliet is the archetype of literary romance and as a result, this theme has appeared in countless songs. Mythology, Jung claimed, bases its stories on the archetypes. By focusing too tightly on symbols and archetypes, Werness sometimes neglects artistic process and unique aspects of cultural significance. Jogen Chowdhury is more direct, eschewing the archetype or the symbolic for the specific and explicit in his paintings. The snake in the garden, then, is many things: real and present danger, archetype, and theological symbol. The archetype of the domineering, meddling woman persists in folk motifs and literature throughout history and across cultures. So a story contains a frame, plot, structure, one or more characters and conflict, and is also likely to contain insight and archetypes, symbols and motifs, stakes and obstacles, a premise and themes. Western culture gives us many examples of the archetype of the Wicked Queen. Much like the book, the movie uses symbolism and archetypes extremely well. 1.3Psychoanalysis (in Jungian psychology) a primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors, and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious. Example sentencesExamples Avatars portray universal human themes and ideas, similar to the dreams expression of archetypes from the collective unconscious In most instances the neglected baby is the Jungian archetype of the divine child. According to Carl Jung, the collective unconscious contains archetypes, universal mental predispositions not grounded in experience. Essentially, the theory can be stated as a psychological law: whenever a phenomenon is found to be characteristic of all human communities, it is an expression of an archetype of the collective unconscious. Never perhaps until C. G. Jung do we find the concept of archetypes of the collective unconscious so clearly formulated. Origin Mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek arkhetupon ‘something moulded first as a model’, from arkhe- ‘primitive’ + tupos ‘a model’.
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