Hypertext Webster Gateway: "paradigm"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Paradigm \Par"a*digm\, n. [F. paradigme, L. paradigma, fr. Gr.
?, fr. ? to show by the side of, to set up as an example; ?
beside + ? to show. See {Para-}, and {Diction}.]
1. An example; a model; a pattern. [R.] ``The paradigms and
patterns of all things.'' --Cudworth.
2. (Gram.) An example of a conjugation or declension, showing
a word in all its different forms of inflection.
3. (Rhet.) An illustration, as by a parable or fable.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
paradigm
n 1: systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
2: 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}]
3: 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}]
4: the generally accepted perspective of a particular
discipline at a given time; "he framed the problem within
the psychoanalytic paradigm"
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