1a typical example or pattern of something; a pattern or model:society’s paradigm of the ‘ideal woman’
a world view underlying the theories and methodology of a particular scientific subject:the discovery of universal gravitation became the paradigm of successful science
2 Linguistics a set of linguistic items that form mutually exclusive choices in particular syntactic roles:English determiners form a paradigm: we can say ‘a book’ or ‘his book’ but not ‘a his book’Often contrasted with syntagm.
3(in the traditional grammar of Latin, Greek, and other inflected languages) a table of all the inflected forms of a particular verb, noun, or adjective, serving as a model for other words of the same conjugation or declension.