meme
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English
Etymology 1
Clipping of mimemeCategory:English clippings#MEME, equivalent to mime + -emeCategory:English terms suffixed with -eme#MEME.
Coined by British biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976Category:English terms coined by Richard Dawkins#MEMECategory:English coinages#MEME in his book The Selfish Gene. Shortened (after gene) from mimeme (compare English phoneme), anglicized as if from a noun derived from Ancient GreekCategory:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#MEME μῑμέομαι (mīméomai) with the deverbal suffix -μα (-ma), from μῖμος (mîmos, “imitation, copy”).[1] The concept was later applied to the Internet by Mike Godwin.[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
meme (plural memes)Category:English lemmas#MEMECategory:English nouns#MEMECategory:English countable nouns#MEMECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MEMECategory:Pages with entries#MEMECategory:Pages with 23 entries#MEME
- (originally) Any unit of (originally 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.Category:English terms with quotations#MEME
- 1988, Noam Chomsky, Massey Lectures (Necessary Illusions):
- For most of the population, the media system is, I think, a different one. It's not just the case that it tries to entertain them. It tries to entertain them through memes, which will intensify attitudes that support the interests of elites.Category:English terms with quotations#MEME
- 2002, Rita Carter, Exploring Consciousness, page 242:
- Related memes tend to form mutually supporting meme-complexes such as religions, political ideologies, scientific theories, and New Age dogmas.Category:English terms with quotations#MEME
- 2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At ‘Hobson-Jobson’”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 67:
- The original Hobson and Jobson stock comic characters have died out as a meme, as has the application of their names to the Muharram in India.Category:English terms with quotations#MEME
- (InternetCategory:en:Internet#MEME) Media, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, such as basic pictures, video templates, etc. [from 1993]
- He posted a meme that went viral within a few hours on social media.Category:English terms with usage examples#MEME
- He stuck memes on the wall to campaign for the position of President.Category:English terms with usage examples#MEME
- 1994 January 10, Mike Godwin, “Meme, Counter-meme”, in Wired:
- Not everyone saw the comparison to Nazis as a "meme" - most people on the Net, as elsewhere, had never heard of "memes" or "memetics." But now that we're living in an increasingly information-aware culture, it's time for that to change.Category:English terms with quotations#MEME
- 2005, darklily, “OT: Livejournal”, in soc.sexuality.general (Usenet):
- I do...but my journal is a mess. It's mostly filled with memes and my bitching about a house I am building.Category:English terms with quotations#MEME
- 2012, Greg Jarboe, You Tube and Video Marketing, 2nd edition:Category:Quotation templates to be cleaned
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#MEME
- 2012 March 28, Trey Parker, “Faith Hilling”, in South Park, season 16, episode 3, spoken by Reporter:
- This latest Internet meme is shocking. But most shocking of all is the person who started the meme isn't a person at all, but a cat who seems to have no regard for people's safety.Category:English terms with quotations#MEME
- 2013 February 8, Tim Jonze, “Harlem Shake meme: the new Gangnam Style?”, in The Guardian:
- Harlem Shake meme: the new Gangnam Style? [headline]Category:English terms with quotations#MEME
- 2017 December 15, Jonah Engel Bromwich, “Life on the Meme Council: Meet the Internet’s Gatekeepers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- Social networks produce inside jokes at a relentless pace. The best, worst, stupidest and funniest of those jokes become memes, and either you get them or you don’t.Category:English terms with quotations#MEME
- 2019 December 31, AJ Willingham, “All the trends we loved and hated in the 2010s”, in CNN:
- Haha, memes are funny! Until they totally become racist. Pepe the Frog lived a very normal meme life right up until online trolls turned him into a green thing of hate in 2016. It got so bad his creator symbolically killed him off in 2017.Category:English terms with quotations#MEME
- 2021 April 29, Marie Fazio, quoting Ben Lashes, “The World Knows Her as ‘Disaster Girl.’ She Just Made $500,000 Off the Meme.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- He said that NFT sales had helped establish memes as a sophisticated art form and “serious pieces of culture.”Category:English terms with quotations#MEME
- (InternetCategory:en:Internet#MEME) A specific instance of a meme, such as an image macro or a video, often with humorous superimposed text.
- This meme generator lets you make your own memes by adding a caption to existing images, or by uploading your own image.Category:English terms with usage examples#MEME
- I'm always posting memes on the groupchat.Category:English terms with usage examples#MEME
- (Internet slangCategory:English internet slang#MEME, derogatoryCategory:English derogatory terms#MEME) Something which is deceptive; a trick, a ruse.
- It's a meme degree, you know. Good luck getting a job from that.Category:English terms with usage examples#MEME
- I can't believe I fell for the bulking meme.Category:English terms with usage examples#MEME
- (Internet slangCategory:English internet slang#MEME, derogatoryCategory:English derogatory terms#MEME) Something not to be taken seriously; a joke.
- It's a meme degree, you know. Good luck getting a job from that.Category:English terms with usage examples#MEME
- Jogging is a meme.Category:English terms with usage examples#MEME
- (InternetCategory:en:Internet#MEME) A work produced and shared in response to a prompt or suggestion within an online group.
Derived terms
- animation meme
- anon meme
- antimeme
- countermeme
- dank meme
- ememe
- Facebook meme
- forced meme
- kink meme
- maymay
- memeable
- meme coin
- memedom
- memehood
- memeification
- memeify
- memeless
- memelike
- memelord
- meme magic
- memeplex
- meme pool
- memer
- memery
- memescape
- meme-speak
- memester
- meme stock
- memetic
- memetic algorithm
- memetic engineering
- memetics
- memeverse
- memeworthy
- memey
- memic
- meming
- memocide
- memology
- memome
- memosphere
- teme
Related terms
Descendants
- → Arabic: مِيم (mīm)
- → Azerbaijani: mem
- → Catalan: mem
- → Cebuano: meme
- → Czech: mem
- → Danish: meme
- → Dutch: meme
- → Esperanto: memeo
- → Estonian: meem
- → Finnish: meemi
- → French: mème
- → Galician: meme
- → German: Mem, Meme
- → Hebrew: מֶם
- → Hindi: मीम (mīm)
- → Hungarian: mém
- → Indonesian: meme
- → Japanese: ミーム
- → Korean: 밈 (mim)
- → Macedonian: мем (mem)
- → Polish: mem
- → Portuguese: meme
- → Romanian: memă
- → Russian: мем (mem)
- → Serbo-Croatian: mim, мим
- → Spanish: meme
- → Swedish: mem, meme
- → Ukrainian: мем (mem)
- → Vietnamese: meme
- → Yiddish: מים (mim)
Translations
See also
Verb
meme (third-person singular simple present memes, present participle memeing or meming, simple past and past participle memed)Category:English lemmas#MEMECategory:English verbs#MEMECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MEMECategory:Pages with entries#MEMECategory:Pages with 23 entries#MEME
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#MEME, Internet slangCategory:English internet slang#MEME) To create and use humorous memes.
- 2012 March 28, Trey Parker, “Faith Hilling”, in South Park, season 16, episode 3, spoken by Lamont:
- Yesterday afternoon four kids went to the hospital for injuries resulting from memeing in front of a local cafe. Faith Hilling, Taylor Swifting. These are things that will get you killed!Category:English terms with quotations#MEME
- 2018, Eric W. Saeger, Russian Nazi Troll Bots!:
- One axiom commonly seen on /pol/ is "The Left Can't Meme"; in other words, left-wing meme jokes aren't funny.Category:English terms with quotations#MEME
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#MEME, Internet slangCategory:English internet slang#MEME) To turn into a meme; to use a meme, especially to achieve a goal in real life.
- Synonym: memeify
- 2016 October 31, Andrew Marantz, “Trolls for Trump”, in The New Yorker, retrieved 2 December 2017:
- Scott Greer, a deputy editor of the Daily Caller, tweeted, “Cernovich memed #SickHillary into reality. Never doubt the power of memes.”Category:English terms with quotations#MEME
- 2017 November 6, “David Moyes to West Ham “memed into existence by the internet””, in Football Burp, retrieved 2 December 2017:
- David Moyes succeeding Slaven Bilić as West Ham United manager is being memed into existence by the internet, Football Burp understands.Category:English terms with quotations#MEME
- 2022 September 22, Jess Thomson, “‘Becoming a meme totally helps a show’: is TV being written with epic gifs in mind?”, in The Guardian:
- “Succession’s language is so specific, unique and captivating that nearly every line is worthy of being ‘memed’, even if it’s just somebody saying ‘fuck off’ or ‘bad tweet!’” she says.Category:English terms with quotations#MEME
- 2024 March 5, Gabriella Paiella, quoting Messineo, “Why ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Became One of the Most Memed Films of the Year”, in GQ:
- In my experience the films that typically get memed are either really terrible (Madame Web), so huge that they’re everywhere (Barbie), or have a cast stacked with familiar faces so the memes cast a wide net for potential sharing.Category:English terms with quotations#MEME
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#MEME, Internet slangCategory:English internet slang#MEME, by extension) To joke around.
- 2004 May 17, you, “Truth vs. Lies”, in alt.slack (Usenet):
- actually, it wasn't my mental functioning. i'm just meming.Category:English terms with quotations#MEME
- 2018 December 13, Aja Romano, “YouTube’s most popular user amplified anti-Semitic rhetoric. Again.”, in Vox:
- “[P]ewdiepie is, once again, doing exactly what neo-nazis want,” Kotaku reporter Nathan Grayson commented on Twitter in response to the incident. “[W]hether he’s just meming or he ascribes to these values, it doesn’t matter. [W]hat matters is that he normalizes these ideas as jokes on THE platform where kids increasingly get their first exposure to the world at large.”Category:English terms with quotations#MEME
- 2019, Rachel Monroe, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession, →ISBN:
- Some of his fellow fascists thought he was just “meming and pranking”; others dismissed it as “some autistic phase.”Category:English terms with quotations#MEME
Derived terms
References
- ↑
Richard Dawkins (1976), The Selfish Gene:
- We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. 'Mimeme' comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like 'gene'. I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme. If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be thought of as being related to 'memory', or to the French word même. It should be pronounced to rhyme with 'cream'.
- ↑ Mike Godwin (10 January 1994), “Meme, Counter-meme”, in Wired: “Not everyone saw the comparison to Nazis as a "meme" - most people on the Net, as elsewhere, had never heard of "memes" or "memetics." But now that we're living in an increasingly information-aware culture, it's time for that to change.”
Further reading
meme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Internet meme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From FrenchCategory:English terms borrowed from French#MEMECategory:English terms derived from French#MEME mémé (“granny”).
Noun
meme (plural memes)Category:English lemmas#MEMECategory:English nouns#MEMECategory:English countable nouns#MEMECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MEMECategory:Pages with entries#MEMECategory:Pages with 23 entries#MEME
- (informalCategory:English informal terms#MEME, term of endearment) granny; nana
- 2011, David G. Atwood II, Into Hell I Rode, page 32:
- When my parents got a divorce my dad washed his hands of my mom and me. He just pretended neither she nor I existed. If it weren't for my Meme, I would have lost all contact with the Atwood family after the divorce.Category:English terms with quotations#MEME
- 2014, Sarah O'Malley, Touching the Edge of Heaven, page 3:
- Then there was my Meme, my father's mother. She was one of the most wonderful, loving, craziest, funniest people I ever had in my life.Category:English terms with quotations#MEME
Anagrams
Category:English autological terms#MEME Category:en:Female family members#MEMECategory:en:Internet memes#MEMECategory:en:Memetics#MEMEBangi
Verb
memeCategory:Bangi lemmas#MEMECategory:Bangi verbs#MEMECategory:Bangi entries with incorrect language header#MEMECategory:Pages with entries#MEMECategory:Pages with 23 entries#MEME
- to carry
Cebuano
Etymology 1
OnomatopoeicCategory:Cebuano onomatopoeias#MEME.
Verb
memeCategory:Cebuano lemmas#MEMECategory:Cebuano verbs#MEMECategory:Cebuano entries with incorrect language header#MEMECategory:Pages with entries#MEMECategory:Pages with 23 entries#MEME
Etymology 2
Borrowed from EnglishCategory:Cebuano terms borrowed from English#MEMECategory:Cebuano terms derived from English#MEME meme.
Noun
memeCategory:Cebuano lemmas#MEMECategory:Cebuano nouns#MEMECategory:Cebuano entries with incorrect language header#MEMECategory:Pages with entries#MEMECategory:Pages with 23 entries#MEME
- a meme
Danish
Noun
memeCategory:Danish lemmas#MEMECategory:Danish nouns#MEMECategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#MEMECategory:Pages with entries#MEMECategory:Pages with 23 entries#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 ...Category:Danish terms with quotations#MEMECategory:Requests for translations of Danish quotations#MEME
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 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 ...Category:Danish terms with quotations#MEMECategory:Requests for translations of Danish quotations#MEME
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from EnglishCategory:Indonesian terms borrowed from English#MEMECategory:Indonesian terms derived from English#MEME meme.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɛmɛ/, /ˈmim/Category:Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation#MEME
Noun
meme (plural meme-meme)Category:Indonesian lemmas#MEMECategory:Indonesian nouns#MEMECategory:Indonesian entries with incorrect language header#MEMECategory:Pages with entries#MEMECategory:Pages with 23 entries#MEME
References
- “meme”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from EnglishCategory:Italian terms borrowed from English#MEMECategory:Italian terms derived from English#MEME meme.
Pronunciation
- (Italianized) IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.me/, /ˈme.me/Category:Italian 2-syllable words#MEMECategory:Italian 2-syllable words#MEMECategory:Italian terms with IPA pronunciation#MEME
- (English-based) IPA(key): /ˈmim/, /ˈmi.mi/, /ˈmɛm/Category:Italian 1-syllable words#MEMECategory:Italian 2-syllable words#MEMECategory:Italian 1-syllable words#MEMECategory:Italian terms with IPA pronunciation#MEME
Noun
meme m (plural (Italianized pronunciation only) memi or meme or (English-based pronunciations only) memes)Category:Italian lemmas#MEMECategory:Italian nouns#MEMECategory:Italian countable nouns#MEMECategory:Italian nouns with multiple plurals#MEMECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#MEMECategory:Italian masculine nouns#MEMECategory:Pages with entries#MEMECategory:Pages with 23 entries#MEME (InternetCategory:it:Internet#MEME)
- meme (media, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations)
- 2011 December 18, Federica Colonna, “La Lettura”, in Corriere della Sera, page 9:
- I memi digitali sono contenuti virali in grado di monopolizzare l’attenzione degli utenti sul web. Un video, un disegno, una foto diventa meme (termine coniato nel 1976 dal biologo Richard Dawkins ne Il gene egoista per indicare un’entità di informazione replicabile) quando la sua «replicabilità», che dipende dalla capacità di suscitare un’emozione, è massima.Category:Italian terms with quotations#MEME
- Digital memes are viral content capable of monopolizing the attention of web users. A video, a drawing, an image can become a meme (a term coined in 1976 by biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, to indicate an entity of replicable information) when its "replicability", which depends on its capacity of arousing an emotion, is highest.
- meme (specific instance of a meme)
Derived terms
Anagrams
Category:it:Memetics#MEMEJapanese
Romanization
memeCategory:Japanese non-lemma forms#MEMECategory:Japanese romanizations#MEMECategory:Japanese terms with non-redundant manual script codes#MEMECategory:Japanese entries with incorrect language header#MEMECategory:Pages with entries#MEMECategory:Pages with 23 entries#MEME
Kongo
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-BantuCategory:Kongo terms inherited from Proto-Bantu#MEMECategory:Kongo terms derived from Proto-Bantu#MEME *méémé.
Noun
meme class 5 (singular meme, singular dimeme, plural mameme)Category:Kongo lemmas#MEMECategory:Kongo nouns#MEMECategory:Kongo entries with incorrect language header#MEMECategory:Kongo class 5 nouns#MEMECategory:Pages with entries#MEMECategory:Pages with 23 entries#MEME
Category:kg:Caprines#MEMECategory:kg:Livestock#MEMELatin
Etymology
Pronunciation
Pronoun
mēmēCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#MEMECategory:Latin pronoun forms#MEMECategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#MEMECategory:Pages with entries#MEMECategory:Pages with 23 entries#MEME
- (rareCategory:Latin terms with rare senses#MEME) emphatic form of mē (“me”)
Lingala
Etymology
Borrowed from BangiCategory:Lingala terms borrowed from Bangi#MEMECategory:Lingala terms derived from Bangi#MEME meme.
Verb
memeCategory:Lingala lemmas#MEMECategory:Lingala verbs#MEMECategory:Lingala entries with incorrect language header#MEMECategory:Pages with entries#MEMECategory:Pages with 23 entries#MEME
- to carry
Luba-Kasai
Pronoun
memeCategory:Luba-Kasai lemmas#MEMECategory:Luba-Kasai pronouns#MEMECategory:Luba-Kasai entries with incorrect language header#MEMECategory:Pages with entries#MEMECategory:Pages with 23 entries#MEME
Lutuv
Noun
memeCategory:Lutuv lemmas#MEMECategory:Lutuv nouns#MEMECategory:Lutuv entries with incorrect language header#MEMECategory:Pages with entries#MEMECategory:Pages with 23 entries#MEME
Mandarin
Romanization
meme (Zhuyin ˙ㄇㄜ ˙ㄇㄜ)Category:Hanyu Pinyin#ME0ME0Category:Mandarin non-lemma forms#ME0ME0Category:Mandarin terms with redundant script codes#ME0ME0Category:Mandarin entries with incorrect language header#ME0ME0Category:Pages with entries#MEMECategory:Pages with 23 entries#MEME
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 麼麼 / 么么
Māori
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Category:Requests for etymologies in Māori entries#MEME
Verb
memeCategory:Māori lemmas#MEMECategory:Māori verbs#MEMECategory:Māori entries with incorrect language header#MEMECategory:Pages with entries#MEMECategory:Pages with 23 entries#MEME
Derived terms
Further reading
Northern Ohlone
Verb
memeCategory:Northern Ohlone lemmas#MEMECategory:Northern Ohlone verbs#MEMECategory:Northern Ohlone entries with incorrect language header#MEMECategory:Pages with entries#MEMECategory:Pages with 23 entries#MEME
- (Ramaytush dialect) kill
Pajapan Nahuatl
Noun
memeCategory:Pajapan Nahuatl lemmas#MEMECategory:Pajapan Nahuatl nouns#MEMECategory:Pajapan Nahuatl entries with incorrect language header#MEMECategory:Pages with entries#MEMECategory:Pages with 23 entries#MEME
Category:nhp:Insects#MEMEPortuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from EnglishCategory:Portuguese terms borrowed from English#MEMECategory:Portuguese terms derived from English#MEME meme.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -ẽmi, -emi, (Portugal) -ɛmɨ, -emɨ, -imɨCategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/ẽmi#MEMECategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/ẽmi/2 syllables#MEMECategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/emi#MEMECategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/emi/2 syllables#MEMECategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛmɨ#MEMECategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛmɨ/2 syllables#MEMECategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/emɨ#MEMECategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/emɨ/2 syllables#MEMECategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/imɨ#MEMECategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/imɨ/2 syllables#MEME
- Hyphenation: me‧me
Noun
meme m (plural memes)Category:Portuguese lemmas#MEMECategory:Portuguese nouns#MEMECategory:Portuguese countable nouns#MEMECategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#MEMECategory:Portuguese masculine nouns#MEMECategory:Pages with entries#MEMECategory:Pages with 23 entries#MEME
- meme (unit of cultural information)
- (InternetCategory:pt:Internet#MEME) meme (humorous image, video or other media shared in the Internet)
Further reading
- “meme”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “meme”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from EnglishCategory:Spanish terms borrowed from English#MEMECategory:Spanish terms derived from English#MEME meme.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmeme/ [ˈme.me]Category:Spanish 2-syllable words#MEMECategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#MEME
- Rhymes: -emeCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/eme#MEMECategory:Rhymes:Spanish/eme/2 syllables#MEME
- Syllabification: me‧me
Noun
meme m (plural memes)Category:Spanish lemmas#MEMECategory:Spanish nouns#MEMECategory:Spanish countable nouns#MEMECategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#MEMECategory:Spanish masculine nouns#MEMECategory:Pages with entries#MEMECategory:Pages with 23 entries#MEME
Further reading
- “meme”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
Swedish
Noun
meme n or cCategory:Swedish lemmas#MEMECategory:Swedish nouns#MEMECategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#MEMECategory:Swedish neuter nouns#MEMECategory:Swedish common-gender nouns#MEMECategory:Swedish nouns with multiple genders#MEMECategory:Pages with entries#MEMECategory:Pages with 23 entries#MEME
- alternative form of mem
- Synonyms: (internet meme, slang) mejmej, (internet meme, slang, humorous) jagjag
- roliga memes
- funny memes
Usage notes
Much more common than mem for internet memes.
Declension
References
- “meme”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
Tagalog
Etymology 1
OnomatopoeicCategory:Tagalog onomatopoeias#MEME.
Verb
memeCategory:Tagalog lemmas#MEMECategory:Tagalog verbs#MEMECategory:Tagalog entries with incorrect language header#MEMECategory:Pages with entries#MEMECategory:Pages with 23 entries#MEME
Etymology 2
Borrowed from EnglishCategory:Tagalog terms borrowed from English#MEMECategory:Tagalog terms derived from English#MEME meme.
Noun
memeCategory:Tagalog lemmas#MEMECategory:Tagalog nouns#MEMECategory:Tagalog entries with incorrect language header#MEMECategory:Pages with entries#MEMECategory:Pages with 23 entries#MEME
- a meme
Tok Pisin
Etymology
Reduplication of EnglishCategory:Tok Pisin terms derived from English#MEME meh (onomatopoeia for the sound a goat makes)
Noun
memeCategory:Tok Pisin lemmas#MEMECategory:Tok Pisin nouns#MEMECategory:Tok Pisin entries with incorrect language header#MEMECategory:Pages with entries#MEMECategory:Pages with 23 entries#MEME
Category:tpi:Caprines#MEMETurkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman TurkishCategory:Turkish terms inherited from Ottoman Turkish#MEMECategory:Turkish terms derived from Ottoman Turkish#MEME ممه (nipple, breast), a childish term formed like Ancient Greek μᾰ́μμη (mắmmē) and Persian ممه (mame). In Turkic languages compare Azerbaijani məmə, Turkmen mäme, Kazakh мәме (mäme).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meˈme/Category:Turkish terms with IPA pronunciation#MEME
- Hyphenation: me‧me
Noun
meme (definite accusative memeyi, plural memeler)Category:Turkish lemmas#MEMECategory:Turkish nouns#MEMECategory:Turkish entries with incorrect language header#MEMECategory:Pages with entries#MEMECategory:Pages with 23 entries#MEME
Declension
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Derived terms
Vietnamese
Etymology
Borrowed from EnglishCategory:Vietnamese terms borrowed from English#MEMECategory:Vietnamese terms derived from English#MEME meme.
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [mim˧˧], [mɛ˧˧ mɛ˧˧]Category:Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation#MEME
- (Huế) IPA(key): [mim˧˧], [mɛ˧˧ mɛ˧˧]Category:Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation#MEME
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [mim˧˧], [mɛ˧˧ mɛ˧˧]Category:Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation#MEME
- Phonetic spelling: mim, me meCategory:Vietnamese terms with IPA pronunciation#MEME
Noun
memeCategory:Vietnamese lemmas#MEMECategory:Vietnamese nouns#MEMECategory:Vietnamese entries with incorrect language header#MEMECategory:Pages with entries#MEMECategory:Pages with 23 entries#MEME
- meme (humorous media)
