PARADIGM

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

An example; a model; a pattern. [R.] "The paradigms and patterns of all things." Cudworth.

2.
n.

An example of a conjugation or declension, showing a word in all its different forms of inflection.

3.
n.

An illustration, as by a parable or fable.


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