| Pronunciation: | | ârkt'Ipul
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WordNet Dictionary |
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[adj] representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned; "archetypal patterns"; "she was the prototypal student activist" |
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ARCHETYPAL is a 10 letter word that starts with A. |
| | Synonyms: | | archetypical, first, prototypal, prototypic, prototypical |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ar"che*ty`pal\, a.
Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or
ideal) or pattern; original. ``One archetypal mind.''
--Gudworth.
Note: Among Platonists, the archetypal world is the world as
it existed as an idea of God before the creation.
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