Noun

• S: (n) paradigm (systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word)
• S: (n) prototype, paradigm, epitome, image (a standard or typical example) "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father"
• S: (n) substitution class, paradigm (the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another))
• S: (n) paradigm (the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time) "he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm"