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1. A pattern, a way of doing something, especially a pattern of thought, a system of beliefs, a conceptual framework.

   Example: Thomas Kuhn's landmark “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” got people talking about paradigm shifts, to the point the word itself now suggests an incomplete or biased perspective.

   Synonyms:modelworldview

2. An example serving as the model for such a pattern.

   Synonyms:exemplarposterboytemplate

3. A set of all forms which contain a common element, especially the set of all inflectional forms of a word or a particular grammatical category.

   Example: The paradigm of "go" is "go, went, gone."