1. Noun
An example; a model; a pattern.
2. Noun
An example of a conjugation or declension, showing a word in all its different forms of inflection.
3. Noun
An illustration, as by a parable or fable.
4. Noun
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)
Vocabulary classified under Biology
5. Noun
a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father"
Vocabulary classified under Computing and technology
6. Noun
the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time; "he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm"
Vocabulary classified under Philosophy
7. Noun
systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
Vocabulary classified under Linguistics
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