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Plural of meme

regular plural

The plural of meme is memes.

Forms of meme

Singularmeme /miːm/
Pluralmemes
Countablecountable

Memes in a sentence

  • Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches.1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
  • It tries to entertain them through memes, which will intensify attitudes that support the interests of elites.1988, Noam Chomsky, Massey Lectures (Necessary Illusions)
  • You will have to venture beyond the normiesphere to find the dankest memes.From the entry normiesphere
  • You unfollowed her for posting cat memes? You're so extra!From the entry extra
  • They joybaited the whole group chat with wholesome memes.From the entry joybait

Meaning of meme

  1. noun Any unit of (originally cultural) information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.
  2. noun Media, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, such as basic pictures, video templates, etc.
  3. noun A specific instance of a meme, such as an image macro or a video, often with humorous superimposed text.

Full definition of meme

Questions about the plural of meme

What is the plural of meme?
The plural of meme is memes.
Is meme countable?
Meme is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meme (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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