English
Etymology
From plagiary + -ism.
Pronunciation
Noun
plagiarism (countable and uncountable, plural plagiarisms)
- (uncountable) Copying of another person's ideas, text, or other creative work, and presenting it as one's own, especially without permission; plagiarizing.
- Even if it's not illegal, plagiarism is usually frowned upon.
- Copy from one, it's plagiarism. Copy from two, it's research.
- (uncountable) Text or other work resulting from this act.
- The novel was awash in plagiarism, with entire passages lifted verbatim.
- (countable) The instance of plagiarism.
Translations
copying of someone's ideas
- Arabic: اِنْتِحال m (intiḥāl)
- Armenian: գրագողություն (hy) (gragoġutʻyun), բանագողություն (hy) (banagoġutʻyun)
- Belarusian: плагія́т m (plahiját)
- Bulgarian: плагиа́тство n (plagiátstvo), плагиа́т m (plagiát)
- Catalan: plagi m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 剽竊/剽窃 (piu5 sit3), 剽窃 (piu3 sit3, piu5 sit3), 抄襲/抄袭 (caau1 zaap6), 抄袭 (caau1 zaap6)
- Mandarin: 剽竊/剽窃 (zh) (piāoqiè), 剽窃 (zh) (piāoqiè, piàoqiè), 抄襲/抄袭 (zh) (chāoxí), 抄袭 (zh) (chāoxí)
- Min Nan: 偷抾 (thau-khioh), 抄襲/抄袭 (zh-min-nan), 抄袭 (chhau-si̍p)
- Czech: plagiátorství n, plagiát (cs) m
- Danish: plagiat (da) n
- Dutch: plagiaat (nl) n
- Esperanto: plagiato
- Estonian: plagiaat
- Finnish: plagiointi (fi)
- French: plagiat (fr) m
- Georgian: პლაგიატი (ka) (ṗlagiaṭi)
- German: Plagiat (de) n
- Greek: λογοκλοπή (el) f (logoklopí)
- Indonesian: plagiarisme (id)
- Italian: plagio (it) m
- Japanese: 剽窃 (ja) (ひょうせつ, hyōsetsu), 盗作 (とうさく, tōsaku), パクリ (pakuri)
- Kazakh: плагиат (plagiat)
- Korean: 표절 (ko) (pyojeol), 도작 (dojak)
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- Kyrgyz: плагиат (plagiat)
- Latvian: plaģiāts m
- Lithuanian: plagiatas m, plagijavimas m
- Macedonian: плагијат m (plagijat)
- Malay: plagiat
- Norwegian: plagiat n
- Occitan: plagiat m
- Persian: دستبرد فکری (dastbord-e fekri)
- Polish: plagiat (pl) m
- Portuguese: plágio (pt) m
- Romanian: plagiat (ro) n, plagiere (ro) f
- Russian: плагиа́т (ru) m (plagiát)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: плагијат m
- Roman: plagijat (sh) m
- Slovak: plagiátorstvo n, plagiát m
- Slovene: plagiatorstvo n, plagiat m
- Spanish: plagio (es) m
- Swedish: plagiering c, plagiat (sv) n
- Tagalog: nakaw-akda, plahiyo
- Turkish: intihal (tr)
- Ukrainian: плагіа́т m (plahiát)
- Uzbek: plagiat (uz)
- Vietnamese: đạo văn (vi)
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act of plagiarizing or something plagiarized
Further reading
- “plagiarism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “plagiarism”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.