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Word: Meme
Speech Type: Noun
1970s (in meme (sense 2 of the noun)): coined by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, from Greek mimēma ‘that which is imitated’, on the pattern of gene
miːm
an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users, often with slight variations
Short Definition:humorous image etc. spread rapidly by internet users
Examples:- celebrity gossip and memes often originate on the site
- the concept originally started as an internet meme
an element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another by imitation or other non-genetic means.
Short Definition:element of culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another
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