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archetype: Meaning and Definition of
ar•che•type
Pronunciation: (är'ki-tīp"), [key] — n.
- the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype.
- (in Jungian psychology) a collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc., universally present in individual psyches.
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