MEME | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary

meme noun [C] (BEHAVIOUR) ... a cultural feature or a type of behaviour that is passed from one generation to another, without the influence of genes: A meme is ... MeaningofmemeinEnglish memenoun[C]uk Yourbrowserdoesn'tsupportHTML5audio /miːm/us Yourbrowserdoesn'tsupportHTML5audio /miːm/ memenoun[C] (BEHAVIOUR) biology  specializedaculturalfeatureoratypeofbehaviourthatispassedfromonegenerationtoanother,withouttheinfluenceofgenes:Amemeistheculturalequivalentoftheunitofphysicalheredity,thegene. Lifestyles&theirstudy affluenza anthropogenic anthropological anthropologically anthropologist anthropology demographics demography downshifting ethnographer ethnographic hermetic hermetically lifestyle monoculture suburbia theglobalvillage westernization westernize westernized Seemoreresults» Youcanalsofindrelatedwords,phrases,andsynonymsinthetopics: Behaving,interactingandbehaviour   Wanttolearnmore? ImproveyourvocabularywithEnglishVocabularyinUsefromCambridge.Learnthewordsyouneedtocommunicatewithconfidence. memenoun[C] (ONINTERNET) internet&telecoms  specializedanidea,image,video,etc.thatisspreadveryquicklyontheinternet:Takealookatthetopteninternetmemesforthispastyear. Internetterminology above/belowthefoldidiom addressbar all-you-can-eat Altcoin androsphere domainname landingpage leet livevlog livevlogging liveblog mention push visitor vlog vlogger VOD waybackmachine Web2.0 webcam Seemoreresults» (DefinitionofmemefromtheCambridgeAdvancedLearner'sDictionary&Thesaurus©CambridgeUniversityPress) Examplesofmeme meme Incontrast,thereislittletheoreticalanalysisorexperimentalstudyofmemes. FromtheCambridgeEnglishCorpus However,thisisnotthewholestory,andindividualdifferencesinsusceptibilitytoparticularmemesmayreflectdifferencesingenotypeanddevelopment. FromtheCambridgeEnglishCorpus Unfortunately,computermusicmemesarenotreplicatingandspreadingthemselvesmuchfurtherthannarrowtechnicallyspecialisedaudiences. FromtheCambridgeEnglishCorpus Isn'titsimplertopositthatselectionistakingplacenotatthelevelofgroupsofindividuals,butatthelevelofmemesthemselves? FromtheCambridgeEnglishCorpus Weagreewithmostofthis,althoughweprefernottouselanguagethatimpliesthatmemesareindependentlivingentities. FromtheCambridgeEnglishCorpus Inthisway,memesintroducenewselectionalforcesandnewkindsofvariationintotheculturalevolutionaryprocess. FromtheCambridgeEnglishCorpus Themindsarehabitatsofthememes,andtheyarecertainlylimitedintheircapacity. FromtheCambridgeEnglishCorpus Theadvantagesofprecisionandpredictabilityconferredbythesemathematicalmodelsareboughtattheconsiderablepriceofsidesteppingthedistributed,relationalprocessesthroughwhichmemesarestoredandevoked. FromtheCambridgeEnglishCorpus Eachmindhasonlyalimitedabilityforthesupportofmemes;therefore,thereisconsiderable'competition'amongmemesforentryintoasmanymindsaspossible. FromtheCambridgeEnglishCorpus Accordingtothisaccount,then,theconcept-wieldingmindisakindofsocialconstruction,broughtintoexistencethroughtheabsorptionofmemesfromthesurroundingculture. FromtheCambridgeEnglishCorpus Similarly,humanbeingsdonotcreateoradoptculturalvariants(ormemes)atrandom,becausepastphylogeneticanddevelopmentalprocesses,includingpastlearning,informthesecreativeandselectiveprocesses. FromtheCambridgeEnglishCorpus Memesdothisthroughtheprocessesofvariation,mutation,competition,andinheritance,eachofwhichinfluenceameme'sreproductivesuccess. FromWikipedia ThisexampleisfromWikipediaandmaybereusedunderaCCBY-SAlicense. Thinkingisanever-creativeprocess;notwoinstantiationsofamemeareeverthesame. FromtheCambridgeEnglishCorpus Withrespecttomemetics,theauthorsarebotheredbythelackofacleardefinitionofameme. FromtheCambridgeEnglishCorpus Dawkins'memehasapeculiarbutpowerfulroletoplayinourunderstandingofthehumanculture. FromtheCambridgeEnglishCorpus Seeallexamplesofmeme Theseexamplesarefromcorporaandfromsourcesontheweb.AnyopinionsintheexamplesdonotrepresenttheopinionoftheCambridgeDictionaryeditorsorofCambridgeUniversityPressoritslicensors. 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