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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PRO'TOTYPE, n. [Gr. first, and type, form, model.]
An original or model after which any thing is formed; the pattern of any thing to be engraved, cast, _c,; exemplar; archetype.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father" [syn: prototype, paradigm, epitome, image]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French, from Greek pr?totypon, from neuter of pr?totypos archetypal, from pr?t- + typos type Date: 1552 1. an original model on which something is patterned ; archetype 2. an individual that exhibits the essential features of a later type 3. a standard or typical example 4. a first full-scale and usually functional form of a new type or design of a construction (as an airplane)

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 an original thing or person of which or whom copies, imitations, improved forms, representations, etc. are made. 2 a trial model or preliminary version of a vehicle, machine, etc. Derivatives: prototypal adj. prototypic adj. prototypical adj. prototypically adv. Etymology: F prototype or LL prototypus f. Gk prototupos (as PROTO-, TYPE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Prototype Pro"to*type, n. [F., from L. prototypus original, primitive, Gr. ?, ?; ? first + ? type, model. See Proto-, and Type] An original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or the like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype. They will turn their backs on it, like their great precursor and prototype. --Burke.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(prototypes) 1. A prototype is a new type of machine or device which is not yet ready to be made in large numbers and sold. Chris Retzler has built a prototype of a machine called the wave rotor. N-COUNT: oft N of n, N n 2. If you say that someone or something is a prototype of a type of person or thing, you mean that they are the first or most typical one of that type. He was the prototype of the elder statesman. N-COUNT: usu N of n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Original, original pattern, model, type, exemplar, example, archetype, protoplast.

Moby Thesaurus

Geistesgeschichte, Hegelian idea, Kantian idea, Platonic form, Platonic idea, aesthetic form, analogue, ancestor, antecedent, antetype, antitype, archetype, art form, biotype, build, cast, classic, classic example, complex idea, configuration, conformation, criterion, cut, epitome, eternal object, eternal universal, example, exemplar, fashion, figuration, figure, first, foregoer, form, formal cause, format, formation, frame, fugleman, fugler, genotype, genre, highest category, history of ideas, ideal, idealism, ideate, ideatum, idee-force, illustration, imitatee, impression, innate idea, inner form, innovation, instance, layout, lead, make, makeup, masterpiece, masterwork, matrix, metaphor, mirror, modality, mode, model, mold, mould, new departure, noosphere, norm, noumenon, original, paradigm, paragon, pattern, pattern of perfection, percept, pilot model, precedent, precursor, predecessor, quintessence, referent, regulative first principle, representative, rule, sample, set, shape, significant form, simple idea, stamp, standard, structure, style, subsistent form, the Absolute, the Absolute Idea, the Self-determined, the realized ideal, transcendent idea, transcendent nonempirical concept, transcendent universal, turn, type, type species, type specimen, universal, universal concept, universal essence, urtext, very model