<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a framework containing the basic assumptions, ways of thinking, and methodology that are commonly accepted by members of a scientific community.</li><li>such a cognitive framework shared by members of any discipline or group: The company’s business paradigm needs updating for a new generation.</li><li>Informal. a general mental model or framework for anything: Their first album completely blew apart my paradigm for what rock music could be.</li><li>an example serving as a model for others to imitate; pattern: Pelham Dairy’s 10-year aged cheddar is the paradigm of cheddars.</li><li>Synonyms: touchstone, paragon, ideal, standard, mold</li><li>a typical or representative instance or example: His experimentalism and iconoclastic attitude towards the past make Picasso a paradigm of 20th century painting.</li><li>Grammar. a set of forms all of which contain a particular element, especially the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme.</li><li>a display in fixed arrangement of such a set, as boy, boy's, boys, boys'.</li></ul>