a person or thing represented or foreshadowed by an earlier type or symbol; especially a figure or event in the New Testament having a counterpart in the Old Testament | a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper |
an opposite or contrasting type | a subdivision of a particular kind of thing |
| all of the tokens of the same symbol |
| printed characters |
| (biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon |
| a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities) |