Category:Paradigm

Par"a*digm, n. Etym: [f. paradigme, l. paradigma, fr. Gr. Para-, and Diction.]

1. An example; a model; a pattern. [r.] "the paradigms and patterns Of all things." Cudworth.

2. (gram.)

Defn: an example of a conjugation or declension, showing a word in All its different forms of inflection.

3. (rhet.)

Defn: an illustration, as by a parable or fable.