English-Thai Dictionary

archetype

N ต้นแบบ  แม่แบบ  prototype ton-baeb

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ARCHETYPE

n.[Gr. beginning, and form. ] 1. The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made; as, a tree is the archetype or pattern of our idea of that tree.
2. Among minters, the standard weight, by which others are adjusted.
3. Among Platonists, the archetypal world is the world as it existed in the idea of God, before the creation.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ARCHETYPE

Ar "che *type, n. Etym: [L. archetypum, Gr. archétype. See Arch-, pref. ]

 

1. The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed. The House of Commons, the archetype of all the representative assemblies which now meet. Macaulay. Types and shadows of that glorious archetype that was to come into the world. South.

 

2. (Coinage )

 

Defn: The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted.

 

3. (Biol.)

 

Defn: The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

archetype

ar che type |ˈärk (i )ˌtīp ˈɑːkitaɪp | ▶noun a very typical example of a certain person or thing: the book is a perfect archetype of the genre. • an original that has been imitated: the archetype of faith is Abraham. • a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology: mythological archetypes of good and evil. • Psychoanalysis (in Jungian psychology ) a primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors, and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious. DERIVATIVES ar che typ i cal |ˌärk (i )ˈtipikəl |adjective ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: via Latin from Greek arkhetupon ‘something molded first as a model, ’ from arkhe- ‘primitive ’ + tupos ‘a model. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

archetype

archetype |ˈɑːkɪtʌɪp | ▶noun 1 a very typical example of a certain person or thing: he was the archetype of the old-style football club chairman. • an original which has been imitated; a prototype: an instrument which was the archetype of the early flute. 2 Psychoanalysis (in Jungian theory ) a primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors, and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious. 3 a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology: mythological archetypes of good and evil. DERIVATIVES archetypical |-ˈtɪpɪk (ə )l |adjective, archetypically adverb ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: via Latin from Greek arkhetupon ‘something moulded first as a model ’, from arkhe- ‘primitive ’ + tupos ‘a model ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

archetype

archetype noun the archetype of Southern hospitality: quintessence, essence, representative, model, embodiment, prototype, stereotype; original, pattern, standard, paradigm.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

archetype

archetype noun an archetype of the old-style football-club chairman: typification, type, prototype, representative, stereotype; original, pattern, model, standard, mould; embodiment, exemplar, essence, quintessence, textbook example, paradigm, ideal, idea.

 

French Dictionary

archétype

archétype n. m. nom masculin Modèle original ou idéal. : Le David de Michel-Ange est l ’archétype du citoyen-guerrier. Prononciation Les lettres ch se prononcent k, [arketip ]

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

archetype

ar che type /ɑ́ː r kitàɪp /名詞 C ｟かたく ｠原型 (prototype ); 典型例 .