paradigm

Nouns

  • (n) systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
  • (n) a standard or typical example
    • he is the prototype of good breeding
    • he provided America with an image of the good father
    epitome, prototype, image,
  • (n) the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another) substitution class,
  • (n) the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time
    • he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm

Synonyms

epitome prototype image substitution class

Words of close approximity

Paradise
paradigmatic