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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to an archetype; constituting a model or pattern; original: as, “one archetypal mind,” Cudworth. Also archetypic, archetypical.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to an archetype.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned

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