A protograph (“original manuscript of a text from which all further copies derive”).
A character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.
An original model of which all other similar concepts, objects, or persons are merely copied, derivative, emulated, or patterned; a prototype.
An ideal example of something; a quintessence.
According to Swiss psychologist Carl Jung: a universal pattern of thought, present in an individual's unconscious, inherited from the past collective experience of humanity.
To depict as, model using, or otherwise associate an object or subject with an archetype.
A sheet of carbon paper.
carbon dioxide, in the context of climate change.
A plate or piece of carbon used as one of the elements of a voltaic battery.
A carbon copy.
A fossil fuel that is made of impure carbon such as coal or charcoal.
A carbon rod or pencil used in an arc lamp.
An atom of this element, in reference to a molecule containing it.
The chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6. It can be found in pure form for example as graphite, a black, shiny and very soft material, or diamond, a colourless, transparent, crystalline solid and the hardest known material.
To cause (someone) to receive a carbon copy of an email message.