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Paradigm

noun

Systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word.

A standard or typical example. Synonyms: epitome, image, prototype. "He provided America with an image of the good father"

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). Synonym: substitution class.

The generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time.

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"Paradigm" Quotes from Famous Books

... with a full display of all the forms of the three conjugations. In his display he, like Alvarez before him, recapitulates the appropriate rules for each form. Collado nowhere presents his conjugational system as a paradigm but does, as we shall see, include a full complement of example sentences in his description, something which Rodriguez does not do in the ...

— Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language • Diego Collado

Words linked to "Paradigm" : concentrate, paradigmatic, category, epitome, position, imago, image, perspective, substitution class, model, class, view, example, family, inflection, prototype, inflexion