paradigm
nounEtymology
From Middle English paradygme, from Late Latin paradīgma, from Ancient Greek παράδειγμα (parádeigma, “pattern”), from παραδείκνυμι (paradeíknumi, “I show [beside] or compare”) + -μα (-ma, suffix forming nouns concerning the results of actions). Doublet of paradigma.
- derived from παράδειγμα
- derived from paradīgma
- inherited from paradygme
Definitions
A pattern, a way of doing something
A pattern, a way of doing something; especially a pattern of thought, a system of beliefs, a conceptual framework.
- Near-synonyms: style, model, worldview
- Thomas Kuhn's landmark “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” got people talking about paradigm shifts, to the point the word itself now suggests an incomplete or biased perspective.
- At times, the assimilationist paradigm has facilitated the physical dispossession of Native lands and the suppression or eradication of Native institutions, culture, and identity by the political branches of the federal government.
An example serving as the model for such a pattern
An example serving as the model for such a pattern; an exceptionally good or prototypical example of a pattern or group.
- Near-synonyms: template, exemplar, archetype, poster child; see also Thesaurus:exemplar, Thesaurus:model
- According to the Fourth Circuit, “Coca-Cola” is “the paradigm of a descriptive mark that has acquired secondary meaning”.
- DRT is a paradigm example of a dynamic semantic theory, […]
A set of all forms which contain a common element, especially the set of all inflectional…
A set of all forms which contain a common element, especially the set of all inflectional forms of a word or a particular grammatical category.
- The paradigm of "to sing" is "sing, sang, sung". The verb "to ring" follows the same paradigm.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for paradigm. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA