ADJECTIVE
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representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned
she was the prototypal student activist
archetypal patterns
How To Use prototypic In A Sentence
- The prototypical noun may be (though need not be) quite long, stress will fall early in the word, the stressed vowel will be non-front, and the final consonant (if an obstruent) will be voiceless.
- Instead it has chosen to replay the Sotomayor empathy soundtrack and repackage the prototypical meritocrat Kagan as the next coming of Norma Rae -- without noticing the obvious differences in the two nominees 'life stories. Welcome To 'The Real World'--White House Edition
- Clients often ask for changes to prototypical elements late in the design process and request that those changes be implemented in all projects currently underway.
- With his broken-down truck and borrowed electricity, Carvel was the prototypical sole proprietor.
- The characters may not have been your prototypical horror clichés, but they lacked charisma, even for British characters.
- This entity or concept is invisible in language form. It hides in the prototypic scenario of the antecedent.
- Made between 1750 and 1830, pattens were worn over the shoes and served to raise the wearer's foot above the mud and dirt beneath, rather like prototypical galoshes.
- Here we have a prototypical example of a probably preventable disaster permitted to happen by an unwillingness to spend the necessary money to prevent it.
- Park Ridge is the prototypical American suburb.
- Under the guidance of this theoretical framework, the systematic discussions and analysis will be carried out to explore the nature and prototypical characteristics of polysemy and synonymy.