PARADIGMS

Systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word

A standard or typical example

Example: "He is the prototype of good breeding"

• epitome  11
• image  8
• prototype  16

• example  18
• model  8

• concentrate  15
• imago  8

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)

• substitution class

The generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time

Example: "He framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm"