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prototype
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of PROTOTYPE
1
one of a group or collection that shows what the whole is like <a literary character who is universally regarded as the ultimate prototype of the spoiled, willful Southern belle>
Synonyms case, exemplar, exemplification, illustration, instance, prototype, representative, sample, specimen
Related Words archetype, classic, locus classicus, paradigm; cross section, microcosm; evidence, indication, manifestation, sign
2
something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developed <the Greek epic that is the prototype of the hero myth>
Synonyms antecedent, archetype, daddy, foregoer, forerunner, granddaddy (also grandaddy), precursor, predecessor, prototype
Antonyms descendant (also descendent)
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