English-Spanish translations for archetype

• arquetipo
  En realidad ha sido el arquetipo de la crisis de la EEB. It has been the archetype of the BSE crisis.
  Durante muchos años, Costa de Marfil ha sido el arquetipo de la buena descolonización. For many years, Côte d'Ivoire was the archetype of good decolonisation.
• exponente

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