archetypal

2 definitions found

archetypal - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
           [1913 Webster]

archetypal - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  archetypal
      adj 1: representing or constituting an original type after which
             other similar things are patterned; "archetypal
             patterns"; "she was the prototypal student activist"
             [syn: archetypal, archetypical, prototypal,
             prototypic, prototypical]