paradigm

One that serves as a pattern or model.

A set or list of all the inflectional forms of a word or of one of its grammatical categories.

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline.

An example; a model.

In grammar, an example of a word, as a noun, adjective, or verb, in its various inflections.

In rhetoric, an example or illustration, of which parable and fable are species: a general term, used by Greek writers.

An example; a model; a pattern.

An example of a conjugation or declension, showing a word in all its different forms of inflection.

An illustration, as by a parable or fable.

A theory providing a unifying explanation for a set of phenomena in some field, which serves to suggest methods to test the theory and develop a fuller understanding of the topic, and which is considered useful until it is be replaced by a newer theory providing more accurate explanations or explanations for a wider range of phenomena.