systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
source: WordNet 3.0
a standard or typical example
He is the prototype of good breeding. He provided America with an image of the good father.
source: WordNet 3.0
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)
source: WordNet 3.0
the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time
He framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm.