paradigm

noun

1. 1

   a standard or typical example

   he is the prototype of good breeding

   he provided America with an image of the good father

2. 2

   the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time

   he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm

3. 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)

4. 4

   systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word