- 1(formal or technology) a typical example or pattern of something a paradigm for students to copy The war was a paradigm of the destructive side of human nature.
- 2(grammar) a set of all the different forms of a word verb paradigms
NAmE//ˌpærədɪɡˈmæt̮ɪk//
adjectiveSee paradigm in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: paradigm