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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective archetypal has 1 sense
- archetypal(s = adj.all) archetypical, prototypal, prototypic, prototypical - representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned; "archetypal patterns"; "she was the prototypal student activist" Derived form noun archetype1
CIDE DICTIONARY
archetypal, a.
Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original. Gudworth. [1913 Webster]
" Among Platonists, the archetypal world is the world as it existed as an idea of God before the creation."
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