archetype
Meaning of archetype
noun
- a very typical example of a certain person or thing.
he was the archetype of the old-style football club chairman
- (in Jungian theory) a primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors, and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious.
- a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology.
mythological archetypes of good and evil
mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek arkhetupon ‘something moulded first as a model’, from arkhe- ‘primitive’ + tupos ‘a model’.
Information about archetype
- It is a name.
- The plural form of archetype is: archetypes.
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Hyphenation of archetype
archetype
- It consists of 1 syllables and 9 chars.
- archetype is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
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