meme

See also mémé, même, and mëmë

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Coined by Richard Dawkins, 1976 in the book, The Selfish Gene. Modelled after gene, from Ancient Greek μίμημα (mimema, “imitation, copy”), influenced by memory and French même (“same”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: mēm, IPA: /miːm/, X-SAMPA: /mi:m/
• Rhymes: -iːm

Noun

meme (plural memes)

1. (philosophy) Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.
2. (philosophy) A self-propagating unit of cultural evolution having a resemblance to the gene (the unit of genetics).
3. (Internet, slang) A quiz or survey that is copied from one webpage or online journal to another, each participant filling in his or her personal answers.
   • 2004, "NoDayButToday", music meme (discussion on Internet newsgroup alt.fan.hanson)

     so this is normall ^[sic] done in LJs, but since it's pretty dead...i thought why not try here...... some of them are kinda obscere^[sic]...and some are easy. give it a try, and then do your list.

   • 2005, "darklily", OT: Livejournal (discussion on Internet newsgroup soc.sexuality.general)

     I do...but my journal is a mess. It's mostly filled with memes and my bitching about a house I am building. My mother read my diary when I was 11 (which had repurcussions^[sic]), so I have had trouble figuring out what to write about in my LJ.

   • 2006, "ShellyS", Set up LiveJournal community? (discussion on Internet newsgroup rec.arts.sf.composition)

     I have about a dozen blogs on Blogger. One is for fun, kind of personal. One is for blogging about blogging and about politics. Another is for book reviews, and one is for reviewing comic books. One is for me to do memes. I like keeping these things separate and I like playing with templates, so having so many let me play a lot.

4. (Internet, slang) An idea, joke, concept, video, animation, etc. that spreads online, often virally.

Derived terms

memetic memetic algorithm

memetic engineering memetics

memeplex meme pool memome

See also

• culturgen
• email forward
• replicator

Translations

unit of cultural information

• Afrikaans: meem (af)
• Arabic: ميمي (ar)
• Catalan: mem (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 文化基因 (cmn) (wénhuà jīyīn)

• Czech: mem (cs) m
• Dutch: meme (nl)
• Esperanto: memeo (eo)
• Estonian: meem (et)
• Finnish: meemi (fi)
• French: mème (fr) m
• Galician: meme (gl)
• German: Mem (de) n
• Greek: μιμίδιο (el) (mimídio) n
• Hebrew: מם (he)

• Hungarian: mém (hu)
• Italian: meme (it) m
• Japanese: ミーム (ja) (miimu)
• Korean: 밈 (ko) (mim)
• Norwegian: mem (no)
• Polish: mem (pl)
• Portuguese: mem (pt) m
• Russian: мем (ru) (mem) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мем (sh) m

  Roman: mem (sh) m

• Spanish: meme (es) m
• Swedish: mem (sv) c
• Ukrainian: мем (uk) (mem) m

self-propagating unit of cultural evolution

• Czech: mem (cs) m
• Finnish: meemi (fi)

• German: Mem (de) n

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

Reduplication of English meh (onomatopoeia for the sound a goat makes)

Noun

meme

1. goat

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Turkish

Noun

meme (definite accusative memeyi, plural memeler)

1. (anatomy) breast

Declension

declension of meme

	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	meme	memeler
definite accusative (belirtme)	memeyi	memeleri
dative (yönelme)	memeye	memelere
locative (bulunma)	memede	memelerde
ablative (çıkma)	memeden	memelerden
genitive (tamlayan)	memenin	memelerin

possessive forms of meme

nominative	singular	plural
benim (my)	memem	memelerim
senin (your)	memen	memelerin
onun (his/her/its)	memesi	memeleri
bizim (our)	mememiz	memelerimiz
sizin (your)	memeniz	memeleriniz
onların (their)	memeleri	memeleri
accusative	singular	plural
benim (my)	mememi	memelerimi
senin (your)	memeni	memelerini
onun (his/her/its)	memesini	memelerini
bizim (our)	mememizi	memelerimizi
sizin (your)	memenizi	memelerinizi
onların (their)	memelerini	memelerini
dative	singular	plural
benim (my)	mememe	memelerime
senin (your)	memene	memelerine
onun (his/her/its)	memesine	memelerine
bizim (our)	mememize	memelerimize
sizin (your)	memenize	memelerinize
onların (their)	memelerine	memelerine
locative	singular	plural
benim (in/at/on my)	mememde	memelerimde
senin (in/at/on your)	memende	memelerinde
onun (in/at/on his/her/its)	memesinde	memelerinde
bizim (in/at/on our)	mememizde	memelerimizde
sizin (in/at/on your)	memenizde	memelerinizde
onların (in/at/on their)	memelerinde	memelerinde
ablative	singular	plural
benim (from my)	mememden	memelerimden
senin (from your)	memenden	memelerinden
onun (from his/her/its)	memesinden	memelerinden
bizim (from our)	mememizden	memelerimizden
sizin (from your)	memenizden	memelerinizden
onların (from their)	memelerinden	memelerinden
genitive	singular	plural
benim (of my)	mememin	memelerimin
senin (of your)	memenin	memelerinin
onun (of his/her/its)	memesinin	memelerinin
bizim (of our)	mememizin	memelerimizin
sizin (of your)	memenizin	memelerinizin
onların (of their)	memelerinin	memelerinin