Model

1. a. Suitable to be taken as a model or pattern; as, a model house; a model husband.
2. n. A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.
3. n. Something intended to serve, or that may serve, as a pattern of something to be made; a material representation or embodiment of an ideal; sometimes, a drawing; a plan; as, the clay model of a sculpture; the inventor’s model of a machine.
4. n. Anything which serves, or may serve, as an example for imitation; as, a government formed on the model of the American constitution; a model of eloquence, virtue, or behavior.
5. n. That by which a thing is to be measured; standard.
6. n. Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
7. n. A person who poses as a pattern to an artist.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.