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What does archetype mean?

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Noun
  1. An original model of which all other similar persons, objects, or concepts are merely derivative, copied, patterned, or emulated; a prototype.
  2. (literature) A character, story, or object that is based on a known character, story, or object.
  3. An ideal example of something; a quintessence.
  4. (psychology) According to the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.
  5. (textual criticism) A protograph.
Verb
  1. To depict as, model using or otherwise associate a subject or object with an archetype.
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