Definition of archetype
- n. - The original pattern or model of a work; or the model
from which a thing is made or formed.
- n. - The standard weight or coin by which others are
adjusted.
- n. - 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.
- n. - The original pattern or model of a work; or the model
from which a thing is made or formed.
- n. - The standard weight or coin by which others are
adjusted.
- n. - 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.