Par″a‐digm (?), n. [F. paradigme, L. paradigma, fr. Gr. �, fr. � to show by the side of, to set up as an example; παρά beside + � to show. See Para-, and Diction.]
1. An example; a model; a pattern. “The paradigms and patterns of all things.” Cudworth.
2. (Gram.) An example of a conjugation or declension, showing a word in all its different forms of inflection.
3. (Rhet.) An illustration, as by a parable or fable.