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adj. - Representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned.

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Usage examples (36)
  • Noun : She is the prototype of a student activist. ,a Renaissance prototype of our modern public housing
  • Verb (used with object) : to prototype a solar-power car
  • The prototypal abstract you told me when I was appointed after congratulating me was that I was feat to lose.
  • He is the classic American success story, the prototypal self-made man, rising from obscure origins to great preeminence.
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