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PARADIGM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A standard or typical example
Example:
he provided America with an image of the good father
Synonyms:
epitome; image; paradigm; prototype
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("paradigm" is a kind of...):
example; model (a representative form or pattern)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "paradigm"):
concentrate (a concentrated example of something)
imago ((psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood)
Derivation:
paradigmatic (of or relating to a typical example)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time
Example:
he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("paradigm" is a kind of...):
perspective; position; view (a way of regarding situations or topics etc.)
Sense 3
Meaning:
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)
Synonyms:
paradigm; substitution class
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("paradigm" is a kind of...):
category; class; family (a collection of things sharing a common attribute)
Derivation:
paradigmatic (related as members of a substitution class)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("paradigm" is a kind of...):
inflection; inflexion (a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function)
Derivation:
paradigmatic (of or relating to a grammatical paradigm)
