prototypical
pronunciation
How to pronounce prototypical in British English:
UK [ˌprəʊtə'tɪpɪkl]
How to pronounce prototypical in American English:
US [ˌproʊtə'tɪpɪkl]
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- Adjective:
- representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned
Word Origin
- prototypical (adj.)
- 1640s, from prototype + -ical.
Example
- 1. Park Ridge is the prototypical American suburb .
- 2. Then the author takes a further step to discuss the status of rhetorical questions in the semantic prototypical category .
- 3. The hunter you could liken to the prototypical ranger .
- 4. The patient can be categorized into substance , information and event , with substance being its prototypical semantic properties .
- 5. Motion verbs are the purest and most prototypical verbs and they comprise an important semantic domain in all languages .