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original: an original model on which something is patterned
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Archetype is defined as the original model of which all other similar persons, objects, or concepts are merely derivative, copied, patterned, or emulated. The term is often used in literature, architecture, and the arts to refer to something that goes back to the fundamental origins of style, method, gold standard, or physical construct. ...
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n. the original model or pattern from which copies are made, or out of which later forms develop; prototype: That little engine is the archetype of huge modern locomotives.
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The ancestral type established hypothetically by eliminating specialized characters of known later forms.
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a plot or character element that recurs in cultural or cross-cultural myths
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