From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
typical
adj 1: exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify
a group or kind or category; "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" [ant: atypical, untypical]
2: of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing;
"Jerusalem has a distinctive Middle East flavor"- Curtis
Wilkie; "that is typical of you!" [syn: distinctive,
typical]
3: conforming to a type; "the typical (or normal) American";
"typical teenage behavior"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Typical \Typ"ic*al\, a. [L. typicus, Gr. ?, from ? type: cf. F.
typique. See Type.]
1. Of the nature of a type; representing something by a form,
model, or resemblance; emblematic; prefigurative.
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The Levitical priesthood was only typical of the
Christian. --Atterbury.
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2. (Nat. Hist.) Combining or exhibiting the essential
characteristics of a group; as, a typical genus.
[1913 Webster] -- Typ"ic*al*ly, adv. --
Typ"ic*al*ness, n.
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