ARCHETYPE Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

archetype

noun

ˈär-ki-ˌtīp

as in forerunner

something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developed the abacus is sometimes cited as the archetype of the modern digital calculator

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as in original

something from which copies are made Beowulf is considered by some scholars to be the archetype for medieval British heroic tales

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Examples of archetype in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The 2024 Emmys singled out another beloved TV archetype on Sunday: the cop. —

Lindsay Kimble, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2024 The lead actors really had to make viewers care about them as people rather than archetypes, especially when the movie flips our assumptions about who is the killer and who is the prey. —

Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2024 Popular on Variety Ramchandani’s baffling screenplay contains the most obvious, stock archetypes of people recurrent in Hollywood’s uninteresting depictions of Latino communities. —

Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 30 Aug. 2024 Kaia Gerber had a brief dalliance with the bombshell archetype this week. —

Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for archetype

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