noun

1. PARADIGM, a standard or typical example
2. PARADIGM, the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time
3. PARADIGM, the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another)
4. PARADIGM, systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
5. PARADIGM, a model or pattern for something that may be copied
6. PARADIGM, a theory or a group of ideas about how something should be done, made, or thought about

1. Her recent book provides us with a new paradigm for modern biography.
2. the Freudian paradigm of psychoanalysis
3. a new study that challenges the current evolutionary paradigm