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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

1. systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word;

2. a standard or typical example;
- Example: "he is the prototype of good breeding"
- Example: "he provided America with an image of the good father"
[syn: prototype, paradigm, epitome, image]

3. 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);
[syn: substitution class, paradigm]

4. the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time;
- Example: "he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Paradigm \Par"a*digm\, n. [F. paradigme, L. paradigma, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to show by the side of, to set up as an example; para` beside + ? to show. See Para-, and Diction.] [1913 Webster] 1. An example; a model; a pattern. [R.] "The paradigms and patterns of all things." --Cudworth. [1913 Webster] 2. (Gram.) An example of a conjugation or declension, showing a word in all its different forms of inflection. [1913 Webster] 3. (Rhet.) An illustration, as by a parable or fable. [1913 Webster] 4. (Science) A theory providing a unifying explanation for a set of phenomena in some field, which serves to suggest methods to test the theory and develop a fuller understanding of the topic, and which is considered useful until it is be replaced by a newer theory providing more accurate explanations or explanations for a wider range of phenomena. [PJC] Paradigmatic
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

paradigm n 1: systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word 2: a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father" [syn: prototype, paradigm, epitome, image] 3: 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) [syn: substitution class, paradigm] 4: the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time; "he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

63 Moby Thesaurus words for "paradigm": IC analysis, accidence, affix, affixation, allomorph, antetype, antitype, archetype, beau ideal, biotype, bound morpheme, classic example, conjugation, criterion, cutting, declension, derivation, difference of form, enclitic, epitome, example, exemplar, formative, free form, fugleman, fugler, genotype, ideal, imitatee, immediate constituent analysis, infix, infixation, inflection, lead, mirror, model, morph, morpheme, morphemic analysis, morphemics, morphology, morphophonemics, original, pattern, precedent, prefix, prefixation, proclitic, prototype, radical, representative, root, rule, standard, stem, suffix, suffixation, theme, type, type species, type specimen, urtext, word-formation