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paradigm   (TTS Sound)

The noun paradigm has 4 senses

• paradigm -- (systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word)


• prototype, paradigm, epitome, image -- (a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father")


• substitution class, paradigm -- (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))


• paradigm -- (the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time; "he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm")