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aemule

/iːˈmjul/

aemule is the obsolete form of emulate.

Meaning of emulate

Verb

emulate (third-person singular simple present emulates, present participle emulating, simple past and past participle emulated)

  1. (archaic) To attempt to equal or be the same as.
  2. To copy or imitate, especially a person.
    • People are endlessly fascinating, even if you'd never want to emulate them.
  3. (obsolete) To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy.
    • But the councell then present emulating my successe, would not thinke it fit to spare me fortie men to be hazzarded in those unknowne regions [...].1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 146
  4. of a program or device: to imitate another program or device

See all 5 meanings of emulate

Forms of aemule

third-person singular presentaemules
present participleaemuling
past participleaemuled
pastaemuled

Words that rhyme with aemule

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Questions about aemule

What is aemule the obsolete form of?
Aemule is the obsolete form of emulate.
How do you pronounce aemule?
Aemule is pronounced /iːˈmjul/.

Words near aemule in the dictionary

  1. Aemilian Way
  2. AEMs
  3. AEMT
  4. AEMTs
  5. aemulation
  6. aemule
  7. aemuled
  8. aemules
  9. aemuling
  10. aenach
  11. aenachs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aemule (page history and authors); emulate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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