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Definition of paradigm noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

paradigm

noun
 
/ˈpærədaɪm/
 
/ˈpærədaɪm/
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  1. (specialist or formal) 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
    3. Word Originlate 15th cent.: via late Latin from Greek paradeigma, from paradeiknunai ‘show side by side’, from para- ‘beside’ + deiknunai ‘to show’.
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