Systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word.
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A standard or typical example. Synonyms:epitome, image, prototype."He provided America with an image of the good father"
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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.
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The generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time.
... Mystery! Just such a pretty babble I find in the Spanish Chapel, which to take in any other spirit would work a madness in the brain. You remember the North wall, apotheosis of Saint Thomas and what-not, for all the world like a paradigm of the irregular verb "Aquinizo." What are we to suppose Lippo Memmi (or whoever else it was) to have been about when he hung in mid-air on his swinging bridge and stained the wet square red and green? To ... — Earthwork Out Of Tuscany • Maurice Hewlett
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