archetypes

Meaning of archetypes

plural noun
  1. a very typical example of a certain person or thing.
    he was the archetype of the old-style football club chairman
  2. (in Jungian theory) a primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors, and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious.
  3. 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 archetypes

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of archetypes is: archetype.
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Hyphenation of archetypes

archetypes

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 10 chars.
  • archetypes is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

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