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   paradigm

   /ˈparədʌɪm/

   noun

   • 1. a typical example or pattern of something; a pattern or model: "society's paradigm of the ‘ideal woman’"
   • ▪ a world view underlying the theories and methodology of a particular scientific subject: "the discovery of universal gravitation became the paradigm of successful science"
   • 2. a set of linguistic items that form mutually exclusive choices in particular syntactic roles: "English determiners form a paradigm: we can say ‘a book’ or ‘his book’ but not ‘a his book’"
   • 3. (in the traditional grammar of Latin, Greek, and other inflected languages) a table of all the inflected forms of a particular verb, noun, or adjective, serving as a model for other words of the same conjugation or declension.

   Word Origin late 15th century: via late Latin from Greek paradeigma, from paradeiknunai ‘show side by side’, from para- ‘beside’ + deiknunai ‘to show’.

   Scrabble Points: 14

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