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Meaning of ARCHETYPAL

Pronunciation:  ârkt'Ipul

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 Definition: [adj]  representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned; "archetypal patterns"; "she was the prototypal student activist"
 
 Synonyms: archetypical, first, prototypal, prototypic, prototypical
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 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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