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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
meme From the web:
- what meme song
- what meme gif
- what meme are you
- what meme music
- what meme template video
- what meme sound
- what meme means
- what meme generator
mese
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English mese, mes, mees (“dinner, dish”), from Old English m?se, m?ose, m?se, m?se (“table; that which is set on a table; dish; food, meal”), probably from Vulgar Latin m?sa, from Latin m?nsa (“table”). Cognate with Scots mes, mese (“a serving of food”), Old High German mias, meas (German Mus, Gemüse), Gothic ???????????? (m?s). Compare Old English m?san (“to eat, dine”), from Proto-Germanic *m?sijan?, from Proto-Germanic *m?s?, an ablaut variant of the root Proto-Germanic mat- (“food”).
Alternative forms
- mease
Noun
mese (plural meses)
- (obsolete) A dinner; meal.
References
- "mése" in: Bosworth, J., & Toller, T. Northcote. (1898). An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Etymology 2
From Middle English mesen, of North Germanic origin. More at meek.
Verb
mese (third-person singular simple present meses, present participle mesing, simple past and past participle mesed)
- To moderate; subdue; abate; mollify.
Anagrams
- Esme, Esmé, emes, seem, seme, semé, smee
Corsican
Noun
mese m (plural mesi)
- month
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mese/, [?me?s?e?]
- Rhymes: -ese
- Syllabification: me?se
Noun
mese
- (slang) MSN Messenger
Declension
Anagrams
- Seem
Garo
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
mese
- mouse
Hungarian
Etymology
From Proto-Ugric *ma???, *ma?? (“tale; to tell (tale, story)”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?m???]
- Hyphenation: me?se
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
mese (plural mesék)
- fairy tale, tale, fable
- Synonyms: tündérmese, népmese, fabula, elbeszélés, történet, sztori
- (derogatory) fabrication, tall story, lie, yarn
- Synonyms: hazugság, kitaláció, nagyotmondás, koholmány
Declension
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- mese in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Italian
Etymology
From Latin m?nsis, m?nsem (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *m?h?n?s (“moon, month”). Compare Catalan mes, French mois, Portuguese mês, Romansch mais, Spanish mes.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?me.ze/
- Rhymes: -eze
Noun
mese m (plural mesi)
- month
Derived terms
- mensile
- mensilmente
- mensilità
See also
- Category:it:Months
- settimana
- anno
Anagrams
- seme
Latin
Noun
mes?
- ablative singular of mes?s
- vocative singular of mes?s
References
- mese in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mese in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
Old French
Noun
mese f (oblique plural meses, nominative singular mese, nominative plural meses)
- Alternative form of messe
Pohnpeian
Noun
mese
- face, facade
- upper part of a yam, taro, pineapple, etc.
- the edge of a reef
Romanian
Noun
mese f pl
- plural of mas?
Spanish
Verb
mese
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mesarse.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mesarse.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of mesarse.