Associations to the word «Prototypical»

Wiktionary

PROTOTYPICAL, adjective. Constituting or representing an original type of something that others are modelled on, or derived from

Dictionary definition

PROTOTYPICAL, adjective. Representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned; "archetypal patterns"; "she was the prototypal student activist".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne