archetype
noun
the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype.
archetypically
-
a word derived from
archetype.
Example Sentences
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“A lot of times when you make movies about soldiers, they get archetypically pigeonholed as either heroes or broken people that need healing,” says Carolin.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 11, 2022
For his part, Thind separately claimed that as a Punjabi of “Aryan blood,” he was not only Caucasian, but archetypically so.
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2018
As with “Boy,” audiences embraced a story with predominantly Maori characters as archetypically Kiwi.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2017
Writing in this magazine in 1980, George W. S. Trow, Jr., observed of Baker, “Her artifice . . . depended on the effectiveness of certain small collisions—between things archetypically feminine, archetypically masculine, archetypically Negro, archetypically white.”
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 23, 2015
If the great male detectives are archetypically loners, female detectives are doubly so.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2010
