Archetype — Defs

01 n. The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed.

1.
The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed.
“The House of Commons, the archetype of all the representative assemblies which now meet.” — Macaulay.

“Types and shadows of that glorious archetype that was to come into the world.” — South.
2.
The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted.(Coinage)
3.
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.(Biol.)