imitator
imitator noun: a person who imitates or apes another.
Noun
imitator (plural imitators)
- A person who imitates or apes another.
- Chalk it up to the government’s revelations in recent years about UFOs, or maybe just the pendulum swinging back, again, after “The X-Files” inspired a host of imitators in the 1990s.2021 October 22, Brian Lowry, “TV OT: The aliens are coming! The aliens are coming! Plus: ‘Curb’ and ‘Insecure’ return”, in CNN
- Other far-right sites would gravitate to Epik. Among the first to announce its migration in early 2019 was BitChute, a YouTube imitator that had been blocked by PayPal.2021 December 9, Rob Kuznia, Curt Devine and Yahya Abou-Ghazala, “Epik is a refuge for the deplatformed far right. Here’s why its CEO insists on doing it”, in CNN
- Synonyms:
- aper
imitator meaning in Hindi, Malayalam and Indonesian
imitator in Hindi
- imitator
- नक़लची naqalcī
imitator in Malayalam
- അനുകർത്താ, മാതൃകാഗാമി, അനുകരിക്കുന്നവൻ, അനുകാരിണി
imitator in Indonesian
- one who imitates another
- peniru
Examples of imitator in a sentence
- Necessarily a poor imitator of Sherlock Holmes, I said, ‘If I’m not mistaken, you’re not only rich but rolling in affluence.
- If the object is too far removed from the imitator, he will not become sensitive to and perceptive of it.
- In him you simply have nature's top-notch imitator.
Synonyms of imitator
Forms of imitator
| plural | imitators |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | imitatour |
Origin of imitator
From French imitateur, derived from Latin imitātor, equivalent to imitate + -or.
Words formed from imitator
Questions about imitator
- What does imitator mean?
- Imitator means a person who imitates or apes another.
- What is imitator in Hindi?
- Imitator in Hindi is नक़लची (naqalcī). See Imitator meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is imitator?
- Imitator is a noun.
- What is the plural of imitator?
- The plural of imitator is imitators.
Words near imitator in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: imitator (page history and authors); नक़लची (Hindi) (page history and authors); imitator (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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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