"imitation" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɪmɪˈteɪʃən/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-imitation.wav [Southern-England] Forms: imitations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From Old French imitacion, from Latin imitatio. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fro|imitacion}} Old French imitacion, {{uder|en|la|imitatio}} Latin imitatio Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} imitation (countable and uncountable, plural imitations)
  1. The act of imitating. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (act of imitating): μίμησις (mímēsis) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), imitación [feminine] (Asturian), іміта́цыя (imitácyja) [feminine] (Belarusian), имитация (imitacija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), imitació [feminine] (Catalan), 模擬 (Chinese Mandarin), 模拟 (mónǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), 模仿 (mófǎng) (Chinese Mandarin), napodobení [neuter] (Czech), imitace [feminine] (Czech), imitation [common-gender] (Danish), efterligning [common-gender] (Danish), navolging [feminine] (Dutch), jäljittely (Finnish), imitaatio (Finnish), imitation [feminine] (French), imitación [feminine] (Galician), Imitation [feminine] (German), Nachahmung [feminine] (German), חִקּוּי (ẖiqqúy) [masculine] (Hebrew), utánzás (Hungarian), 模倣 (mohō) (alt: もほう) (Japanese), 真似 (mane) (alt: まね) (Japanese), imitatio [feminine] (Latin), imitasjon [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), imitasjon [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), onhyring [feminine] (Old English), imitacja [feminine] (Polish), imitatorstwo [neuter] (Polish), naśladownictwo [neuter] (Polish), imitação [feminine] (Portuguese), arremedo [masculine] (Portuguese), imitare [feminine] (Romanian), имита́ция (imitácija) [feminine] (Russian), подража́ние (podražánije) [neuter] (Russian), imitación [feminine] (Spanish), అనుకరణ (anukaraṇa) (Telugu), taklit (Turkish), öykünme (Turkish), öyküntü (Turkish), іміта́ція (imitácija) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-imitation-en-noun-XQj4BjAF Categories (other): English terms with collocations Disambiguation of 'act of imitating': 99 1
  2. (attributive) A copy or simulation; something that is not the real thing. Tags: attributive, countable, uncountable Translations (copy): μίμησις (mímēsis) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), μίμημα (mímēma) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), imitación [feminine] (Asturian), копие (kopie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), imitació [feminine] (Catalan), taqlit (Crimean Tatar), napodobenina [feminine] (Czech), imitace [feminine] (Czech), imitation [common-gender] (Danish), efterligning [common-gender] (Danish), kopio (Finnish), jäljitelmä (Finnish), imitation [feminine] (French), imitación [feminine] (Galician), Kopie [feminine] (German), Imitat [neuter] (German), חִקּוּי (ẖiqqúy) [masculine] (Hebrew), utánzat (Hungarian), mű- (Hungarian), imitazione [feminine] (Italian), 模造品 (mozōhin) (alt: もぞうひん) (Japanese), imitamentum [neuter] (Latin), imitasjon [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), imitasjon [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), imitacja [feminine] (Polish), kopia [feminine] (Polish), imitação [feminine] (Portuguese), imitare [feminine] (Romanian), imitație [feminine] (Romanian), imitación [feminine] (Spanish), taklit (Turkish), öykünme (Turkish), öyküntü (Turkish), imitasyon (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-imitation-en-noun-JT9L1i1m Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 19 81 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 36 64 Disambiguation of 'copy': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: copying, imitation, replication Hyponyms: transcription, mimeography, impersonation, impersonification [archaic], personation, simulation, forgery, plagiarism Derived forms: imitation game, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, imitation lace, imitation vanilla, non-imitation, self-imitation

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          "sense": "act of imitating",
          "tags": [
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "act of imitating",
          "tags": [
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
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          "sense": "act of imitating",
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
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          "sense": "act of imitating",
          "tags": [
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "imitácija",
          "sense": "act of imitating",
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          ],
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          "roman": "podražánije",
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          "word": "подража́ние"
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "act of imitating",
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "te",
          "lang": "Telugu",
          "roman": "anukaraṇa",
          "sense": "act of imitating",
          "word": "అనుకరణ"
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "tr",
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          "sense": "act of imitating",
          "word": "taklit"
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "act of imitating",
          "word": "öykünme"
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "act of imitating",
          "word": "öyküntü"
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "imitácija",
          "sense": "act of imitating",
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          "sense": "copy",
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          "sense": "copy",
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          "sense": "copy",
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            "feminine"
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          "word": "napodobenina"
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          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "copy",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "copy",
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          "word": "efterligning"
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          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "copy",
          "word": "kopio"
        },
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          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "copy",
          "word": "jäljitelmä"
        },
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "copy",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "sense": "copy",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "imitación"
        },
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          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "copy",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "Kopie"
        },
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          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "copy",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Imitat"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "mímēsis",
          "sense": "copy",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "μίμησις"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "mímēma",
          "sense": "copy",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "μίμημα"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "ẖiqqúy",
          "sense": "copy",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "חִקּוּי"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "copy",
          "word": "utánzat"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "copy",
          "word": "mű-"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "copy",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "imitazione"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "alt": "もぞうひん",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "mozōhin",
          "sense": "copy",
          "word": "模造品"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "copy",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
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          "word": "imitamentum"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "code": "nb",
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      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "imitació"
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      "word": "模擬"
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      "tags": [
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      "sense": "act of imitating",
      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "jäljittely"
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      "word": "imitaatio"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "act of imitating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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      "code": "gl",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "imitación"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "act of imitating",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Imitation"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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      "code": "grc",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "he",
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      "sense": "act of imitating",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "חִקּוּי"
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      "code": "hu",
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      "word": "utánzás"
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      "alt": "もほう",
      "code": "ja",
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      "word": "模倣"
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      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "act of imitating",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "pl",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "imitacja"
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      "code": "pl",
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      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "act of imitating",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "imitação"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "act of imitating",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "ro",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "imitare"
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      "code": "es",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "te",
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      "sense": "act of imitating",
      "word": "అనుకరణ"
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      "word": "imitación"
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      "word": "imitació"
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "fi",
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      "code": "fr",
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      "code": "gl",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "imitación"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "Kopie"
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    {
      "code": "de",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "grc",
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      "code": "he",
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      "word": "mű-"
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      "code": "it",
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      "tags": [
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      "alt": "もぞうひん",
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      "word": "模造品"
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    {
      "code": "la",
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      "tags": [
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "ro",
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      "sense": "copy",
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "copy",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "imitación"
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    {
      "code": "tr",
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      "sense": "copy",
      "word": "taklit"
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    {
      "code": "tr",
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      "word": "öykünme"
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    {
      "code": "tr",
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      "word": "öyküntü"
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    {
      "code": "tr",
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    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "imitation"
  ],
  "word": "imitation"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (ae36afe and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.