English-Dutch translations for archetype

• archetype
  Jarenlang was Ivoorkust het archetype van een goede dekolonisatie. For many years, Côte d'Ivoire was the archetype of good decolonisation.
  Het was het archetype van de BSE-crisis. It has been the archetype of the BSE crisis.

Definition of archetype

• An original#Adjective|original model#Noun|model of which all other similar concepts, object#Noun|objects, or persons are merely copy#Verb|copied, derivative#Adjective|derivative, emulated, or pattern#Verb|patterned; a prototype#Noun|prototype.
• An ideal#Adjective|ideal example of something; a quintessence
• A character, object, or story that is base#Verb|based on a known character, object, or story
• According to Swiss psychologist : a universal pattern#Noun|pattern of thought#Noun|thought, present in an individual#Noun|individual's unconscious#Noun|unconscious, inherited from the past#Adjective|past collective#Adjective|collective experience#Noun|experience of humanity
• A
• To depict as, model#Verb|model using, or otherwise associate#Verb|associate an object#Noun|object or subject#Noun|subject with an #Noun|archetype

Related words

• archetypal
• archetypical
• archetypally
• archetypic