ape
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[edit] English
Silvery gibbon (1)
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From Middle English, from Old English apa, Common Germanic *apan, cf Old Saxon apo, Old Norse api, German Affe, Dutch aap, Swedish apa. Akin to Old Irish apa, Welsh epa, Old Bohemian op, Slovak opitza.
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ape (not comparable)
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ape (plural apes)
- An animal of a class of primates generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.
- (derogatory) An uncivilised person.
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- See also Wikisaurus:ape
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animal
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derogatory: person
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to ape (third-person singular simple present apes, present participle aping, simple past and past participle aped)
- (transitive) To imitate.
- 1961, J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, vol. 92, p. 454,
- It is not conceived as a mere “aping” in externals nor as an enacting in the sense of assuming a foreign role.
- 1961, J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, vol. 92, p. 454,
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imitate
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- monkey
- troop (collective noun)
- Appendix: Animals
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(index ap)
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ape (stem ap-*)
- horse feed
- (colloquial) food
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Declension of ape (type hame)
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ape (plural apes)
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ape f. (plural api)
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ape
- Plural form of apa.
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- IPA: /aːpe/
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ape m. (definite singular apen; indefinite plural aper; definite plural apene)
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- IPA: [ˈape]
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ape f. pl.
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ape
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- apeadaviya = "our site"
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