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Archetype vs Para - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between archetype and para

is that archetype is an original model of which all other similar persons, objects, or concepts are merely derivative, copied, patterned, or emulated; a prototype while para is formerly, a subunit of currency in several countries in the ottoman/turkish and yugoslav regions or para can be (medicine) a woman who has had a certain number of pregnancies, indicated by the number prepended to this word or para can be a paragraph or para can be a paratrooper.

As a verb archetype

is to depict as, model using or otherwise associate a subject or object with an archetype.

As an adjective para is

(uk|australia|slang) very drunk.

archetype

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An original model of which all other similar persons, objects, or concepts are merely derivative, copied, patterned, or emulated; a prototype
  • (literature) A character, story, or object that is based on a known character, story, or object.
  • An ideal example of something; a quintessence.
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  • (psychology) According to the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.

    • Usage notes

    Traditionally archetype'' refers to the model upon which something is based, but it has also come to mean an example of a personality archetype, particularly a fictional character in a story based on a well-established personality model. In this fashion, a character ''based'' on the Jesus archetype might be referred to as a "Jesus archetype". See ''eponym for a similar usage conflict.

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    Verb

  • To depict as, model using or otherwise associate a subject or object with an archetype.
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    para

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • State in northern Brazil which has as its capital.

    • See also

    * (wikipedia "Pará")

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