Paradigm (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
    • a framework containing the basic assumptions, ways of thinking, and methodology that are commonly accepted by members of a scientific community.
    • such a cognitive framework shared by members of any discipline or group: The company’s business paradigm needs updating for a new generation.
  2. a general mental model or framework for anything: Their first album completely blew apart my paradigm for what rock music could be.
  3. an example serving as a model for others to imitate; pattern: Pelham Dairy’s 10-year aged cheddar is the paradigm of cheddars.
  4. a typical or representative instance or example: His experimentalism and iconoclastic attitude towards the past make Picasso a paradigm of 20th century painting.
  5. Grammar.
    • a set of forms all of which contain a particular element, especially the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme.
    • a display in fixed arrangement of such a set, as boy, boy's, boys, boys'.
noun
  1. the set of all the inflected forms of a word or a systematic arrangement displaying these forms
  2. a pattern or model
  3. a typical or stereotypical example (esp in the phrase paradigm case)
  4. (in the philosophy of science) a very general conception of the nature of scientific endeavour within which a given enquiry is undertaken
Paradigm (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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