archetype

archetype has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• n.. The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed.
• n.. The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted.
• n.. The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype.
• n.. something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies; "this painting is a copy of the original"