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   Ar·che·type

   /ˈärk(ə)ˌtīp/

   

   noun

   • 1. a very typical example of a certain person or thing: "the book is a perfect archetype of the genre"
   • ▪ an original that has been imitated: "the archetype of faith is Abraham"
   • ▪ a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology: "mythological archetypes of good and evil"
   • ▪ (in Jungian psychology) a primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors, and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious.

   Word Origin mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek arkhetupon ‘something moulded first as a model’, from arkhe- ‘primitive’ + tupos ‘a model’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. archetypical adjective
   • 2. archetypically adverb

   Scrabble Points: 19

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