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Word: Paradigm
Speech Type: Noun
late 15th century: via late Latin from Greek paradeigma, from paradeiknunai ‘show side by side’, from para- ‘beside’ + deiknunai ‘to show’
ˈparədʌɪm
a typical example or pattern of something; a pattern or model
Short Definition:pattern or model
Examples:- society's paradigm of the ‘ideal woman’
a set of linguistic items that form mutually exclusive choices in particular syntactic roles
Short Definition:set of items forming mutually exclusive choices
Examples:- English determiners form a paradigm: we can say ‘a book’ or ‘his book’ but not ‘a his book’
(in the traditional grammar of Latin, Greek, and other inflected languages) a table of all the inflected forms of a particular verb, noun, or adjective, serving as a model for other words of the same conjugation or declension.
Short Definition:table of all inflected forms of word
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