Definition of pattern oneself after
- When he started his own business, he patterned himself after his father.
: a form or model proposed for imitation : exemplar
: something designed or used as a model for making things
: an artistic, musical, literary, or mechanical design or form
: match
: imitate
: to make, adapt, or fashion according to a pattern
: a person's self : one's own self
: one's normal, healthy, or sane condition or self
: following in time or place : afterward, behind, later
: behind in place
: subsequent to in time or order
: subsequent to and in view of
: subsequently to the time when
: later in time
: located toward the rear and especially toward the stern of a ship or tail of an aircraft
used with a present participle to indicate action completed and especially just completed
: afternoon
used as the first part of a compound to indicate an event or entity that follows or results from the thing denoted by the second part of the compound
used as the first part of a compound to indicate an event or entity of the same nature as the thing denoted by the second part of the compound but which follows that event or entity and is less intense or significant
the rear or lower part
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