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paradigm
Noun
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A system of beliefs, ideas, values, and habits that is a way of thinking about the real world.
At the time, this way of thinking was the dominant paradigm for social scientists.
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A paradigm is an example, model or pattern, especially the most basic or central one.
For fifteen centuries Aristotle remained the paradigm of knowledge itself.
It provides paradigms of action and role models through which we interpret `real life'.
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(Grammar) A paradigm is the set of all word forms.
The complete paradigm for boy is: boy, boy’s, boys, boys’, boyish.
dictionary
Noun
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A dictionary is a book that tells you what words mean, and how to spell them. A lot of dictionaries will also tell you about etymology (where words come from) and pronunciation (how to speak them).
You are reading an online dictionary right now.
The words in a printed dictionary are in alphabetical order.
I looked up the dictionary to find the meaning of the word business.