Definition of "role model" []

• A person who serves as a model in a particular behavioral or social role for another person to emulate. (noun)

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• "The afternoon was just right warm—a May day that could have been a role model for all May days, and the air smelled wet and grassy because Mrs. Saint George across the street had turned her sprinkler on."
• "As of this writing, the first official Vixen novel, The Warslayer by Rosemary Edghill, is sitting atop the New York Times Bestseller List, while First Lady Tipper Gore just cited Vixen as "an outstanding role model for America's youth.""
• "Lacking a positive role model in their parents, COAs make decisions by guesswork and trial and error."