| Noun | 1. | paradigm - systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a wordinflection, inflexion - a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function | |
| 2. | paradigm - a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father"example, model - a representative form or pattern; "I profited from his example" concentrate - a concentrated example; "the concentrate of contemporary despair" imago - (psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood | |
| 3. | 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)category, class, family - a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents" | |
| 4. | paradigm - the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time; "he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm"perspective, view, position - a way of regarding situations or topics etc.; "consider what follows from the positivist view" | |