"nekomimi" meaning in All languages combined

See nekomimi on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: nekomimi [plural], nekomimis [plural]
Etymology: From Japanese 猫耳 (nekomimi), from 猫 (neko, “cat”) + 耳 (mimi, “ear”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|ja|猫耳|tr=nekomimi}} Japanese 猫耳 (nekomimi), {{m|ja|猫||cat|tr=neko}} 猫 (neko, “cat”), {{m|ja|耳||ear|tr=mimi}} 耳 (mimi, “ear”) Head templates: {{en-noun|nekomimi|s}} nekomimi (plural nekomimi or nekomimis)
  1. (chiefly Japanese fiction) Cat ears. Tags: Japanese Categories (topical): Fictional characters, Japanese fiction
    Sense id: en-nekomimi-en-noun-FXcSLvM7 Disambiguation of Fictional characters: 45 55 Disambiguation of Japanese fiction: 55 45 Topics: fiction, literature, media, publishing
  2. (chiefly Japanese fiction) (by metonymy, coming from meronymy) A fictional character who has cat ears on an otherwise human body, and possibly other feline characteristics such as a tail. Tags: Japanese Categories (topical): Fictional characters, Japanese fiction
    Sense id: en-nekomimi-en-noun-en:catgirl__metonymically Disambiguation of Fictional characters: 45 55 Disambiguation of Japanese fiction: 55 45 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 89 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 12 88 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 18 82 Topics: fiction, literature, media, publishing
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: catperson Hypernyms: kemonomimi Hyponyms: catboy, catgirl

Romanization [Japanese]

Head templates: {{head|ja|romanization|head=|sc=Latn}} nekomimi
  1. Rōmaji transcription of ねこみみ Tags: Rōmaji, alt-of, romanization Alternative form of: ねこみみ
    Sense id: en-nekomimi-ja-romanization-aDoR7k-J Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese romanizations, Japanese terms with non-redundant manual script codes

Inflected forms

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