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meme
English
Etymology
Coined by British biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 in his book The Selfish Gene. Shortened (after gene) from mimeme (compare English phoneme), from Ancient Greek ????? (mîmos, “imitation, copy”). The concept was later applied to the Internet by Mike Godwin.
Pronunciation
- enPR: m?m, IPA(key): /mi?m/
- Rhymes: -i?m
Noun
meme (plural memes)
- Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.
- Synonym: culturgen
- 1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene:
- Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches.
- 2002, Rita Carter, Exploring Consciousness, p. 242:
- Related memes tend to form mutually supporting meme-complexes such as religions, political ideologies, scientific theories, and New Age dogmas.
- (Internet) Media, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, including quizzes, basic pictures, video templates etc. [from 1993]
- 2012, Greg Jarboe, You Tube and Video Marketing, 2nd edition:
- The idea was to append Keyboard Cat to the end of a blooper video to "play" that person offstage after a mistake or gaffe, like getting the hook in the days of vaudeville. The meme became popular, Ashton Kutcher tweeted about it to more than 1 million followers, and more than 4,000 such videos have now been made.
- 2012, Greg Jarboe, You Tube and Video Marketing, 2nd edition:
- (Internet, slang) A myth circulating as truth, such as ineffective practices presented as effective.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- email forward
- replicator
Verb
meme (third-person singular simple present memes, present participle meming or memeing, simple past and past participle memed)
- (transitive, rare, Internet slang) To turn into a meme; to use a meme, especially to achieve a goal in real life.
- (intransitive, Internet slang) To create and use humorous memes.
- (intransitive, Internet slang) To joke around.
- I thought you guys were just meming.
Further reading
- meme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Internet meme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
Anagrams
- meem
Cebuano
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic.
Verb
meme
- (childish) to sleep
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English meme.
Noun
meme
- a meme
Danish
Noun
meme
- meme
- 2019, Stine Bødker, Klar til kærlighed, Gyldendal A/S (?ISBN)
- Hvis du lige har taget et fint billede og fundet på en sjov caption, så hav det klar til at dele, kort efter I bliver venner, så du er sikker på, at han ser det. Tag ham i et sjovt meme eller et billede af noget, som I har talt om. Det er en ret low-key måde ...
- 2019, Andreas von der Recke, Jacob Harlev, Mikkel Sandal Hansen, Patrick Walther Thomsen, #Youngster: 5 dogmer til at tiltrække og fastholde millennials, BoD – Books on Demand (?ISBN), page 19:
- Hvis det ikke var for ham, kunne vi nok skrive 2018 på denne bogs udgivelsesdato. Hvis du kan finde et godt meme (Google billeder: memes) at åbne samtalen med Mikkel på, har du vundet hans hjerte. Men han respekterer kun dem, der kan ...
- 2019, Stine Bødker, Klar til kærlighed, Gyldendal A/S (?ISBN)
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from English meme.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mémé/
Noun
meme (plural meme-meme, first-person possessive memeku, second-person possessive mememu, third-person possessive memenya)
- meme
References
- “meme” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
Noun
meme m (plural memi)
- (protoscience) meme
Kongo
Noun
meme (singular meme, singular dimeme, plural mameme)
- sheep
Mandarin
Romanization
meme (Zhuyin ??? ???)
- Pinyin transcription of ??
Northern Ohlone
Verb
meme
- (Ramaytush dialect) kill
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English meme.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?me.mi/
Noun
meme m (plural memes)
- meme (unit of cultural information)
- (Internet) meme (humorous image, video or other media shared in the Internet)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowing from English meme.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?meme/, [?me.me]
Noun
meme m (plural memes)
- meme (unit of cultural information)
- meme (Internet slang)
Tok Pisin
Etymology
Reduplication of English meh (onomatopoeia for the sound a goat makes)
Noun
meme
- goat
Turkish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Compare Azerbaijani m?m?, Turkmen määme.
Noun
meme (definite accusative memeyi, plural memeler)
- (anatomy) breast
Declension
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icon
English
Alternative forms
- eikon, ikon (only in sense of religious image)
Etymology
From Latin ?c?n, from Ancient Greek ????? (eik?n, “likeness, image, portrait”). Eastern Orthodox Church sense is attested from 1833. Computing sense first recorded in 1982.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?a?.k?n/
- (US) IPA(key): /?a?.k??n/
Noun
icon (plural icons)
- An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.
- Synonyms: idol, (pejorative) graven image
- (religion, especially Eastern Christianity) A type of religious painting portraying a saint or scene from Scripture, often done on wooden panels.
- (by extension) A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:exemplar, Thesaurus:model
- (graphical user interface) A small picture that represents something.
- Click the loudspeaker icon to configure audio settings.
- (linguistics) A word, character, or sign whose form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons.
- Coordinate terms: symbol, index.
Derived terms
- aniconic, aniconism
- iconism
Related terms
- iconic
- iconoclasm, iconoclast, iconoclastic
- iconify
- iconography
- iconstasis
Translations
Further reading
- icon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- icon (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- COIN, Coin, Nico, cion, coin, coni
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (eik?n, “likeness, image, portrait”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?i?.ko?n/, [?i?ko?n]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?i.kon/, [?i?k?n]
Noun
?c?n f (genitive ?conis); third declension
- an image
- (later Latin): icon (religious painting)
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Related terms
- ?conicus
- ?conismus
References
- icon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- icon in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- icon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- icon in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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