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"glosses": [
"A physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing."
],
"links": [
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"physical",
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],
[
"image",
"image#Noun"
],
[
"representation",
"representation"
],
[
"deity",
"deity"
],
[
"person",
"person#Noun"
],
[
"thing",
"thing"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1840 May 19, Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture V. The Hero as Man of Letters. Johnson, Rousseau, Burns.”, in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1840, →OCLC, page 163:",
"text": "One Life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us forevermore! It were well for us to live not as fools and simulacra, but as wise and realities.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1858, Thomas Carlyle, “Journey Homewards from the Reich; Catastrophe on Journey Homewards”, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book VII, page 233:",
"text": "He is become a mere enchanted simulacrum of a Duke; bewitched under worse than Thessalian spells; without faculty of willing, except as she wills; his People and he the plaything of this Circe or Hecate, that has got hold of him.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1861 November, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “George the Fourth”, in The Four Georges: Sketches of Manners, Morals, Court, and Town Life, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 169:",
"text": "[Y]ou find you have nothing—nothing but a coat and wig and a mask smiling below it—nothing but a great simulacrum.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1877, William Black, “Culture”, in Green Pastures and Piccadilly. […], volume III, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 86:",
"text": "Certainly a vehicle that seemed to have no inside at all—that appeared to be the mere simulacrum of a vehicle—could not very well contain the two.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2008 October 23, Manohla Dargis, “Movie review: ‘Synecdoche, New York’: Dreamer, live in the here and now”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-29:",
"text": "Inside the warehouse, he builds a replica of his world line by line, actor by actor, until fiction and nonfiction blur. Like the full-scale map in [Jose Luis] Borges's short story \"On Exactitude in Science,\" the representation takes on the dimensions of reality to the point of replacing it. The French theorist Jean Baudrillard uses Borges's story as a metaphor for his notion of the simulacrum, which probably explains why Caden, who has trouble naming things, considers titling his production \"Simulacrum.\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2018, Ling Ma, chapter 1, in Severance, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 13:",
"text": "The future just wants more consumers. The future is more newly arrived college grads and tourists in some fruitless search for authenticity. The future is more overpriced Pabsts at dive-bar simulacrums.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2018 September 18, Amanda Kolson Hurley, CityLab, “Fake Public Squares Are Coming to the Suburbs: ‘Memory Towns’ Promise to Provide an Aging Population with Dementia Therapy and the Accessible Spaces of a Bygone Era”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-09:",
"text": "It's a sad commentary on our real, full-scale communities that they are so anti-urban by comparison, and so unsafe for the old and frail. […] We shouldn't have to dodge traffic on an eight-lane road just to get to a simulacrum of an inclusive urban place. The problem is not too much Disneyland thinking—it's not enough.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"A thing which has the appearance or form of another thing, but not its true qualities; a thing which simulates another thing; an imitation, a semblance."
],
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"appearance",
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"form",
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"true",
"true#Adjective"
],
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"qualities",
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[
"simulate",
"simulate"
],
[
"imitation",
"imitation"
],
[
"semblance",
"semblance"
]
],
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{
"word": "simulant"
},
{
"word": "simulation"
}
]
}
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"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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"General-American"
]
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"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
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},
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"translations": [
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "simulakr",
"sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
"word": "սիմուլակր"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "obraz",
"sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "образ"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "podobie",
"sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "подобие"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "simulacre"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
"word": "kuva"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
"word": "malli"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "simulacre"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Simulacrum"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Simulakrum"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "apeíkasma",
"sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "απείκασμα"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "epífasi",
"sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "επίφαση"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "simulacro"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "prívidnost",
"sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "при́видност"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "slíka",
"sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сли́ка"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "prívid",
"sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "при́вид"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "symulakrum"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "simulacro"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "simulacru"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "симулакрум"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "simulacro"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "thing which has the appearance or form of another thing, but not its true qualities",
"word": "simulakrumi"
}
],
"word": "simulacrum"
}
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