Found 2 items, similar to archetypal.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: archetypal
archetypal
adj : representing or constituting an original type after which
other similar things are patterned;
“archetypal
patterns”;
“she was the prototypal student activist”
[syn:
archetypical,
prototypal,
prototypic,
prototypical]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Archetypal
Archetypal
\Ar"che*ty`pal\, a.
Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or
ideal) or pattern; original.
“One archetypal mind.”
--Gudworth.
[1913 Webster]
Note: Among Platonists, the archetypal world is the world as
it existed as an idea of God before the creation.
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