Definition of meme in English:

meme

noun miːmmim

1An element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another by imitation or other non-genetic means.
〔生〕文化基因；模仿因子
Example sentencesExamples
- The gene explains natural evolution and survival, while the meme explains cultural evolution and survival.
- As people's skill at imitation increased, those memes that were good at getting copied would have spread far and wide.
- As the building blocks of culture, memes influence every aspect of human behaviour.
- While genes compete to get copied when plants and animals reproduce, memes compete to get stored in our memories and passed on to someone else.
- Benzon is dismissive of accounts of evolution of culture that rely on memes being intentional states.
2An image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by Internet users, often with slight variations.
Example sentencesExamples
- Rogue vendors attempted to capitalize from the growing interest in the Kenny Glenn meme and searching for Glenn directed to rogue sites.
- A string of empty government slogans, meanwhile, was parodied in a popular meme known as "the river crab wears three watches".
- He says the appeal of the biggest memes is simple, basic humour.
- What if you could get the originator of every major internet meme in the same room?
- Adds a little context that makes particular sense if you have been following related memes in blogspace.
- Here's a great post at The Community Engine on spreading and tracking your meme using tags.
- Wasn't there a meme a couple of years ago about giving people ownership of their personal data?
- Tracks tech memes, and people play the game of jumping on the hottest stories to try to build traffic.
- Since these crazes can draw millions of internet users, advertisers and marketers are increasingly desperate to understand what makes a meme successful so that they can replicate it for profit.
- The latest meme to infect the internet features footage of Fatso the keyboard-playing cat.
- It's forum has spawned many memes and more than its fair share of trolls.
- The Shaun Squad site of itself is not a meme, and never could be a meme, because it is inherently unlinkable.
- Although it didn't win first prize, this one unleashed one of the most viral memes in the history of the Net.
- The "news" was often flippant, being about internet memes and strange events, and the "newscaster" was flippant, too.

Derivatives

memetic

adjective

Sometimes as a social historian one sees currents that recur time and time again in the memetic ocean of man's consciousness, and we wonder what drives them.
Example sentencesExamples
- This diagram takes into account that weblogs have different levels of insight within them, and that information is often replicated (either by active memetic spread or because the insights are simple and common).
- At each step of the way, there's a memetic code (memes operating as the business equivalent of genes), competition, and evolution.
- Brunvand describes different approaches to contemporary legends, including the Freudian, the Fortean, the memetic, the linguistic, and the sociological.
- The memetic approach is to ask why these particular memes spread.

Origin

1970s: from Greek mimēma 'that which is imitated', on the pattern of gene.

Rhymes

abeam, agleam, beam, blaspheme, bream, deem, deme, downstream, dream, esteem, extreme, gleam, hakim, kilim, midstream, Nîmes, régime, scheme, scream, seam, seem, steam, stream, supreme, team, teem, theme, upstream

Definition of meme in US English:

meme

nounmēmmim

1An element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation.
〔生〕文化基因；模仿因子
Example sentencesExamples
- While genes compete to get copied when plants and animals reproduce, memes compete to get stored in our memories and passed on to someone else.
- The gene explains natural evolution and survival, while the meme explains cultural evolution and survival.
- As the building blocks of culture, memes influence every aspect of human behaviour.
- As people's skill at imitation increased, those memes that were good at getting copied would have spread far and wide.
- Benzon is dismissive of accounts of evolution of culture that rely on memes being intentional states.
1. 1.1 A humorous image, video, piece of text, etc., that is copied (often with slight variations) and spread rapidly by Internet users.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Tracks tech memes, and people play the game of jumping on the hottest stories to try to build traffic.
  The Shaun Squad site of itself is not a meme, and never could be a meme, because it is inherently unlinkable.
  The "news" was often flippant, being about internet memes and strange events, and the "newscaster" was flippant, too.
  He says the appeal of the biggest memes is simple, basic humour.
  What if you could get the originator of every major internet meme in the same room?
  The latest meme to infect the internet features footage of Fatso the keyboard-playing cat.
  It's forum has spawned many memes and more than its fair share of trolls.
  A string of empty government slogans, meanwhile, was parodied in a popular meme known as "the river crab wears three watches".
  Rogue vendors attempted to capitalize from the growing interest in the Kenny Glenn meme and searching for Glenn directed to rogue sites.
  Wasn't there a meme a couple of years ago about giving people ownership of their personal data?
  Although it didn't win first prize, this one unleashed one of the most viral memes in the history of the Net.
  Adds a little context that makes particular sense if you have been following related memes in blogspace.
  Since these crazes can draw millions of internet users, advertisers and marketers are increasingly desperate to understand what makes a meme successful so that they can replicate it for profit.
  Here's a great post at The Community Engine on spreading and tracking your meme using tags.

Origin

1970s: from Greek mimēma ‘that which is imitated’, on the pattern of gene.

词汇	meme
释义	Definition of meme in English: meme noun miːmmim 1An element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another by imitation or other non-genetic means. 〔生〕文化基因；模仿因子 Example sentencesExamples The gene explains natural evolution and survival, while the meme explains cultural evolution and survival. As people's skill at imitation increased, those memes that were good at getting copied would have spread far and wide. As the building blocks of culture, memes influence every aspect of human behaviour. While genes compete to get copied when plants and animals reproduce, memes compete to get stored in our memories and passed on to someone else. Benzon is dismissive of accounts of evolution of culture that rely on memes being intentional states. 2An image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by Internet users, often with slight variations. Example sentencesExamples Rogue vendors attempted to capitalize from the growing interest in the Kenny Glenn meme and searching for Glenn directed to rogue sites. A string of empty government slogans, meanwhile, was parodied in a popular meme known as "the river crab wears three watches". He says the appeal of the biggest memes is simple, basic humour. What if you could get the originator of every major internet meme in the same room? Adds a little context that makes particular sense if you have been following related memes in blogspace. Here's a great post at The Community Engine on spreading and tracking your meme using tags. Wasn't there a meme a couple of years ago about giving people ownership of their personal data? Tracks tech memes, and people play the game of jumping on the hottest stories to try to build traffic. Since these crazes can draw millions of internet users, advertisers and marketers are increasingly desperate to understand what makes a meme successful so that they can replicate it for profit. The latest meme to infect the internet features footage of Fatso the keyboard-playing cat. It's forum has spawned many memes and more than its fair share of trolls. The Shaun Squad site of itself is not a meme, and never could be a meme, because it is inherently unlinkable. Although it didn't win first prize, this one unleashed one of the most viral memes in the history of the Net. The "news" was often flippant, being about internet memes and strange events, and the "newscaster" was flippant, too. Derivatives memetic adjective Sometimes as a social historian one sees currents that recur time and time again in the memetic ocean of man's consciousness, and we wonder what drives them. Example sentencesExamples This diagram takes into account that weblogs have different levels of insight within them, and that information is often replicated (either by active memetic spread or because the insights are simple and common). At each step of the way, there's a memetic code (memes operating as the business equivalent of genes), competition, and evolution. Brunvand describes different approaches to contemporary legends, including the Freudian, the Fortean, the memetic, the linguistic, and the sociological. The memetic approach is to ask why these particular memes spread. Origin 1970s: from Greek mimēma 'that which is imitated', on the pattern of gene. Rhymes abeam, agleam, beam, blaspheme, bream, deem, deme, downstream, dream, esteem, extreme, gleam, hakim, kilim, midstream, Nîmes, régime, scheme, scream, seam, seem, steam, stream, supreme, team, teem, theme, upstream Definition of meme in US English: meme nounmēmmim 1An element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation. 〔生〕文化基因；模仿因子 Example sentencesExamples While genes compete to get copied when plants and animals reproduce, memes compete to get stored in our memories and passed on to someone else. The gene explains natural evolution and survival, while the meme explains cultural evolution and survival. As the building blocks of culture, memes influence every aspect of human behaviour. As people's skill at imitation increased, those memes that were good at getting copied would have spread far and wide. Benzon is dismissive of accounts of evolution of culture that rely on memes being intentional states. 1.1 A humorous image, video, piece of text, etc., that is copied (often with slight variations) and spread rapidly by Internet users. Example sentencesExamples Tracks tech memes, and people play the game of jumping on the hottest stories to try to build traffic. The Shaun Squad site of itself is not a meme, and never could be a meme, because it is inherently unlinkable. The "news" was often flippant, being about internet memes and strange events, and the "newscaster" was flippant, too. He says the appeal of the biggest memes is simple, basic humour. What if you could get the originator of every major internet meme in the same room? The latest meme to infect the internet features footage of Fatso the keyboard-playing cat. It's forum has spawned many memes and more than its fair share of trolls. A string of empty government slogans, meanwhile, was parodied in a popular meme known as "the river crab wears three watches". Rogue vendors attempted to capitalize from the growing interest in the Kenny Glenn meme and searching for Glenn directed to rogue sites. Wasn't there a meme a couple of years ago about giving people ownership of their personal data? Although it didn't win first prize, this one unleashed one of the most viral memes in the history of the Net. Adds a little context that makes particular sense if you have been following related memes in blogspace. Since these crazes can draw millions of internet users, advertisers and marketers are increasingly desperate to understand what makes a meme successful so that they can replicate it for profit. Here's a great post at The Community Engine on spreading and tracking your meme using tags. Origin 1970s: from Greek mimēma ‘that which is imitated’, on the pattern of gene.
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