archetype

[US]/ˈɑːkitaɪp/
[UK]/ˈɑːrkitaɪp/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. typical prototype, representative model.

Example Sentences

an archetype of the successful entrepreneur.

the book is a perfect archetype of the genre.

Marx gave us the archetype of the capitalist.

mythological archetypes of good and evil.

Old Mr. Duff is the archetype of the elderly British gentleman.

This paper focuses on the relationship between an kind of archetype named shadow and social institutions, through Jung's archetypal theory and Erich Fromm's human destructivity theory.

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