Usually means: Framework of concepts, methods, standards.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word paradigm:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. paradigm: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. paradigm: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. paradigm: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. paradigm: Collins English Dictionary
  5. paradigm: Vocabulary.com
  6. Paradigm, paradigm: Wordnik
  7. paradigm: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. paradigm: Wiktionary
  9. paradigm: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. paradigm: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. paradigm: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Paradigm, paradigm: Dictionary.com
  13. paradigm: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. paradigm: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Paradigm (Image Comics), Paradigm (album), Paradigm (comics), Paradigm (disambiguation), Paradigm (experimental), Paradigm (publisher), Paradigm (video game), Paradigm: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Paradigm: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. paradigm: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. paradigm: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. paradigm: Free Dictionary
  20. paradigm: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. paradigm: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. paradigm: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. paradigm: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  24. paradigm: Rhymezone

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. paradigm: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  4. Paradigm: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. paradigm: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Paradigm: Game Dictionary
  2. paradigm: Encyclopedia
  3. Paradigm: Cybernetics and Systems

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. paradigm: Natural Health glossary
  2. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. paradigm: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. paradigm, paradigm: Wordcraft Dictionary
  3. Sociology (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  3. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Paradigm: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. JPL Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See paradigmatic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A pattern, a way of doing something; especially a pattern of thought, a system of beliefs, a conceptual framework.
noun:  An example serving as the model for such a pattern.
noun:  (linguistics) A set of all forms which contain a common element, especially the set of all inflectional forms of a word or a particular grammatical category.

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