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- a literary character who is regarded as the prototype of the fanatical and intolerant pursuer of justice
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- the Greek epic that is the prototype of the hero myth
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- ancestor,
- antecedent,
- archetype,
- daddy,
- foregoer,
- forerunner,
- granddaddy
- (also grandaddy),
- precursor,
- predecessor
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- descendant
- (also descendent)
- the manufacturer exhaustively tested the prototype of the vehicle before approving production
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“Prototype.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prototype. Accessed 28 Jun. 2022.
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The first known use of prototype was in 1552
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