Associations to the word «Prototypical»

Wiktionary

PROTOTYPICAL, adjective. Constituting or representing an original type of something that others are modelled on, or derived from

Dictionary definition

PROTOTYPICAL, adjective. Representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned; "archetypal patterns"; "she was the prototypal student activist".

Wise words

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
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