paradigm – English noun declension

English noun forms of paradigm

Noun: paradigm
Singularparadigm
Pluralparadigms; paradigmata

Sample Sentences

  • Near-synonyms: style, model, worldview
  • 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.
  • At times, the assimilationist paradigm has facilitated the physical dispossession of Native lands and the suppression or eradication of Native institutions, culture, and identity by the political branches of the federal government. [2024 September 30, Michael Doran, “EXCEPTIONALISM AND ASSIMILATIONISM IN FEDERAL INDIAN LAW”, in Stanford Law School, volume 20, number 2, page 267, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2025:]
  • Near-synonyms: template, exemplar, archetype, poster child; see also Thesaurus:exemplar, Thesaurus:model
  • According to the Fourth Circuit, “Coca-Cola” is “the paradigm of a descriptive mark that has acquired secondary meaning”. [2000, Estate of William F. Jenkins v. Paramount Pictures Corp.:]
  • DRT is a paradigm example of a dynamic semantic theory, […] [2003, Nicholas Asher, Alex Lascarides, Logics of Conversation, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 46:]
  • The paradigm of "to sing" is "sing, sang, sung". The verb "to ring" follows the same paradigm.

Nouns inflected like paradigm

charism, axiom, idiom, paradigm, telesm,

Etymology

From Middle English paradygme, from Late Latin paradīgma, from Ancient Greek παράδειγμα (parádeigma, “pattern”), from παραδείκνυμι (paradeíknumi, “I show [beside] or compare”) + -μα (-ma, suffix forming nouns concerning the results of actions). Doublet of paradigma. See: Middle English Nouns 'paradygme', Ancient Greek Nouns 'παράδειγμα'.