Noun | 1. | prototype - a standard or typical example; 'he is the prototype of good breeding'; 'he provided America with an image of the good father' epitome, paradigm, image example, model - a representative form or pattern; 'I profited from his example' concentrate - a concentrated example of something; 'the concentrate of contemporary despair' imago - (psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood |