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pattern:
(plural: ‘patterns‘)
Apart from several other more common meanings/definitions…
a person (or thing) considered to be a good example or model to copy, follow, imitate, etc.,
e.g.
Mother Teresa is an excellent pattern whom we can all follow.
(a pattern — a design)
{Note: “Pattern” is more commonly used to refer to a design, style, sample, etc. or a regular repeated arrangement of something, e.g. ‘a dress pattern’, ‘a pattern of cutlery’, ‘a flight pattern’, etc., and also as a verb, e.g. “They patterned a plan to control the wastage of water.”}
(a flight pattern — the route/path of an aeroplane flying from one place to another regularly)
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