memes

We have found lemma(root) word of memes : meme.

Definitions


[miːm], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users, often with slight variations
(e.g: celebrity gossip and memes often originate on the site)

- an element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another by imitation or other non-genetic means


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Origin:
1970s (in meme): coined by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, from Greek mimēma ‘that which is imitated’, on the pattern of gene


[miːm], (Verb)

Definitions:
- create an internet meme from (an image, video, piece of text, etc.)
(e.g: there's always one audience reaction shot at the Oscars that gets memed)


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Origin:
1970s (in meme): coined by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, from Greek mimēma ‘that which is imitated’, on the pattern of gene




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