archetypal Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned
    prototypic; archetypical; prototypal; prototypical.
    • archetypal patterns
    • she was the prototypal student activist

WordNet


Ar"che*ty`pal adjective
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original. "One archetypal mind." Gudworth. ✍ Among Platonists, the archetypal world is the world as it existed as an idea of God before the creation.

Webster 1913