paradigm

Noun

• the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time
  • he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic 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)

• a standard or typical example
  • he is the prototype of good breeding
    
  • he provided America with an image of the good father
    

• systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  substitution class , prototype , epitome , image