## Meanings
1. A repeated decorative design of shapes, lines, or colours.
2. A regular way in which something happens or is done.
3. A model or example used as a guide to copy or imitate.
4. To make or shape something by following an example or model.

## Examples
- The wallpaper had a pretty floral pattern.
- The doctor noticed a pattern in the patient's headaches.
- The new constitution provided a pattern for many other republics.
- The army was patterned after the French system.

## Synonyms
- categorize
- model

## Antonyms
- antipattern

## Derived Forms
- anti-pattern
- beampattern
- biopattern
- co-pattern
- depattern
- eigenpattern
- fact-pattern
- glycopattern
- hydropattern
- macropattern
- metapattern
- micropattern

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: patron
- Root: patrōnus

## Etymology
From earlier patten, paterne, from Middle English patron (“patron; example”), from Old French patron, from Medieval Latin patrōnus (“patron”). Doublet of padrone, patron, Patronus, and patroon.

## AI Etymology
Pattern comes from earlier patten, paterne, from Middle English patron (“patron; example”), from Old French patron, from Medieval Latin patrōnus (“patron”). Doublet of padrone, patron, Patronus, and patroon. Modern senses include a repeated decorative design of shapes, lines, or colours and a regular way in which something happens or is done. The wider word family includes derivatives such as anti-pattern, beampattern, biopattern, co-pattern, depattern, and eigenpattern.

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