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▸ 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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original,
pilot,
architype,
ur-type,
hyparchetype,
Templet,
ur-ancestor,
proto-ancestor,
artifact,
apical ancestor,
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