meme
noun
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In his 1976 bookThe Selfish Gene, British scientist Richard Dawkins defended his newly coined wordmeme, which he defined as “ a unit of ethnic transmission . ” Hold first consider , then refuse ,mimeme, he write : “Mimemecomes from a suited Greek source , but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit likegene. ” ( The suited Greek root wasmim– , signify “ mime ” or “ mimic . ” The English suffix –emeindicates a distinctive unit of words structure , as ingrapheme, , andphoneme. ) Like any good meme ,memecaught on and evolved , eventually educate the meaning known to anyone who spend time online , where it ‘s almost much used to relate to any one of those silly captioned photos that the Internet ca n’t seem to make adequate of .
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- ray
- bream
- cream
- creme
- deem
- dream
- gleam
- ream
- scheme
- shriek
- line
- seem
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“ Meme . ”Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster , https : //www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meme . Accessed 9 May . 2025 .
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