Definitionen
1.NounAn original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2.NounAn ideal example of something; a quintessence.
3.NounA character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.
4.NounAccording to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung: a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.
5.NounA protograph (“original manuscript of a text from which all further copies derive”).
6.VerbTo depict as, model using, or otherwise associate an object or subject with an archetype.