Archetype and Son

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Archetype noun - Something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developed.

Usage example: the abacus is sometimes cited as the archetype of the modern digital calculator

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Son is an antonym for archetype.

Nearby Words: archetypal, archetypical

Son noun - A male human offspring.

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Archetype is an antonym for son.

old	old archetype	old son
good	good archetype	good son
perfect	perfect archetype	perfect son
original	original archetype	original son
Other adjectives: handsome, single, actual, real, little, innocent, new, older.

Usually the first born son as the larger, stronger, heroic archetype.

Source: Princeling Rivalry
Born in Rostov in a clergy family ("Popovich" literally means "son of priest"), he is a Trickster Archetype among the Bogatyrs, who rounds up the famous Power Trio with Ilya and Dobrynya.

Source: Myth / Russian Mythology and Tales
The backfire comes when his son Paul just so happens to be a seer and becomes a Messianic Archetype who gathers the Proud Warrior Race Guy natives together and trains them to be a Bad Ass Army La Résistance, launching a coup d'etat.

Source: Reassignment Backfire

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