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Typical

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Adjective

1. typical

exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category

Example Sentences:
'a typical American girl'
'a typical suburban community'
'the typical car owner drives 10,000 miles a year'
'a painting typical of the Impressionist school'
'a typical romantic poem'
'a typical case of arteritis'

2. distinctive, typical

of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing

Example Sentences:
'Jerusalem has a distinctive Middle East flavor'
'that is typical of you!'

3. typical

conforming to a type

Example Sentences:
'the typical (or normal) American'
'typical teenage behavior'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Typical

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adjective
1. 
being or serving as a representative example of a particular type; characteristic
the painting is a typical Rembrandt
2. 
considered to be an example of some undesirable trait
that is typical of you!
3. 
of or relating to a representative specimen or type
4. 
conforming to a type
5. biology
having most of the characteristics of a particular taxonomic group
a typical species of a genus

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Typical

see synonyms of typical
adjective
1. 
serving as a type; symbolic
2. 
having or showing the characteristics, qualities, etc. of a kind, class, or group so fully as to be a representative example
3. 
of or belonging to a type or representative example; characteristic

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Typical

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adj.
1. Exhibiting the qualities, traits, or characteristics that identify a kind, class, group, or category: a typical suburban community.
2. Of or relating to a representative specimen; characteristic or distinctive.
3. Conforming to a type: a composition typical of the baroque period.
4. also typ·ic (-ĭk) Of the nature of, constituting, or serving as a type; emblematic.
5. Conforming with what usually happens: The bus is late again? That's so typical!

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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