paradigm

Noun

  1. systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
  2. a standard or typical example; “he is the prototype of good breeding”; “he provided America with an image of the good father”
  3. 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. the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time; “he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm”