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/tˈɪpəkəl/ /tˈɪpɪkəl/ Listen

adjective

Typical adj.

Of the nature of a type; representing something by a form, model, or resemblance; emblematic; prefigurative. "The Levitical priesthood was only typical of the Christian."

(Nat. Hist.) Combining or exhibiting the essential characteristics of a group; as, a typical genus.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... a hundred such typical evenings in the Bon Ton lobby, Mr. Latz, sighing out a satisfaction of his inner man, sat himself down on a red velvet chair opposite Mrs. Samstag. His knees wide-spread, taxed his knife-pressed gray trousers to their very last ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... last conversation was a senseless quarrel about the proper division of the income—at a word either would have given it all to the other. It was typical of the muddle and confusion of their lives that on the October night when Anthony reported at the Grand Central Station for the journey to camp, she arrived only in time to catch his eye over the anxious ...

— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald

... bush to bush and tree to tree. Menard's face grew more serious as the time went by. He began to realize that the Long Arrow was desperate, that he was determined on vengeance before the other chiefs could come. It had been a typical savage thought that had led him to bring Menard to this village, where he had once lived, rather than to the one in which the chief held greater permanent authority; the scheme was too complete and too near its end for delay or failure to be considered. Still the attacking party drew nearer, ...

— The Road to Frontenac • Samuel Merwin

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— Heathen Slaves and Christian Rulers • Elizabeth Wheeler Andrew and Katharine Caroline Bushnell

... time ago, after addressing the members of a ward M.I.A., asked a group of scouts to remain after the meeting, to whom he put the question, "What is it that you like or dislike in teachers?" The group was a thoroughly typical group—real boys, full of life and equally full of frankness. ...

— Principles of Teaching • Adam S. Bennion

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