systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word

a standard or typical example; he is the prototype of good breeding; he provided America with an image of the good father

[ Syn: prototype , epitome , image ]

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)

[ Syn: substitution class ]

the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time; he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm'