Meaning of PARADIGM
| Pronunciation: | | 'parudIm
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- [n] a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father"
- [n] the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time; "he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm"
- [n] the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another)
- [n] systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
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PARADIGM is a 8 letter word that starts with P. |
| | Synonyms: | | epitome, image, prototype, substitution class |
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| | See Also: | | category, class, concentrate, example, family, imago, inflection, inflexion, model, perspective, position, view | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Par"a*digm\, n. [F. paradigme, L. paradigma, fr. Gr.
?, fr. ? to show by the side of, to set up as an example; ?
beside + ? to show. See {Para-}, and {Diction}.]
1. An example; a model; a pattern. [R.] ``The paradigms and
patterns of all things.'' --Cudworth.
2. (Gram.) An example of a conjugation or declension, showing
a word in all its different forms of inflection.
3. (Rhet.) An illustration, as by a parable or fable.
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| | Related Terms: | | accidence, affix, affixation, allomorph, antetype, antitype, archetype, beau ideal, biotype, bound morpheme, classic example, conjugation, criterion, cutting, declension, derivation, difference of form, enclitic, epitome, example, exemplar, formative, free form, fugleman, fugler, genotype, IC analysis, ideal, imitatee, immediate constituent analysis, infix, infixation, inflection, lead, mirror, model, morph, morpheme, morphemic analysis, morphemics, morphology, morphophonemics, original, pattern, precedent, prefix, prefixation, proclitic, prototype, radical, representative, root, rule, standard, stem, suffix, suffixation, theme, type, type species, type specimen, urtext, word-formation |
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