Usually means: Universal, symbolic patterns of behavior.
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  1. archetype: Merriam-Webster
  2. archetype: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. archetype: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. archetype: Collins English Dictionary
  5. archetype: Vocabulary.com
  6. Archetype, archetype: Wordnik
  7. archetype: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. archetype: Wiktionary
  9. archetype: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. archetype: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. archetype: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. archetype: Dictionary.com
  13. archetype: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Archetype (Fear Factory album), Archetype (Fear Factory song), Archetype (Susumu Hirasawa album), Archetype (Tonedeff album), Archetype (disambiguation), Archetype (information science), Archetype (textual criticism), Archetype (video game), Archetype: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Archetype: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. archetype: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. archetype: Rhymezone
  18. archetype, archetype (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. archetype: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. archetype: FreeDictionary.org
  21. archetype: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. archetype: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. archetype: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. archetype: Merriam-Webster

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  1. archetype: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
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  2. archetype: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. archetype: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. archetype: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. archetype: Medical dictionary

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  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. archetype: Evolution Glossary
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. Archetype: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See archetypal as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned; a prototype.
noun:  An ideal example of something; a quintessence.
noun:  (literature) A character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.
noun:  (psychology) According to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung: a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.
noun:  (textual criticism) A protograph (“original manuscript of a text from which all further copies derive”).
verb:  To depict as, model using, or otherwise associate an object or subject with an archetype.

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