1. (

• paradigm

) systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word ;

2. (

• 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" ;

3. (

• 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) ;

4. (

• paradigm ,

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