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Archetypal   /ˈɑrktˈaɪpəl/   Listen
Archetypal

adjective
1.
Representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned.  Synonyms: archetypical, prototypal, prototypic, prototypical.  "She was the prototypal student activist"





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... representatives of these types. Paris was the original University of Masters; its pattern was copied, with some modifications, by the universities of England, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Scotland. Bologna was the archetypal University of Students; its organization was imitated, also with variations, by the universities Italy, France (except Paris), ...
— Readings in the History of Education - Mediaeval Universities • Arthur O. Norton


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