paradigm
noun /ˈpærədaɪm/
/ˈpærədaɪm/
- (specialist or formal) a typical example or pattern of something
- a paradigm for students to copy
- The war was a paradigm of the destructive side of human nature.
- (grammar) a set of all the different forms of a word
- verb paradigms
Word Originlate 15th cent.: via late Latin from Greek paradeigma, from paradeiknunai ‘show side by side’, from para- ‘beside’ + deiknunai ‘to show’.