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mimemes

mimemes is the plural of mimeme.

Meaning of mimeme

Noun

mimeme (plural mimemes)

  1. A unit of mimetic information.
    • Speech learning is a mimetic process. The linguistic signal is a ‘mimeme’.1955, Leonard Robert Palmer, Achaeans and Indo-Europeans: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford on 4 November 1954, page 8

Questions about mimemes

What is mimemes the plural of?
Mimemes is the plural of mimeme.

Words near mimemes in the dictionary

  1. mime out
  2. mimecan
  3. mimed
  4. mimelike
  5. mimeme
  6. mimemes
  7. mimeo
  8. mimeo.
  9. mimeoed
  10. mimeograph
  11. mimeographed

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