paradigm(noun) a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father"
(noun) the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time; "he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm"
(noun) 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)
(noun) systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
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