Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who imitates, copies, or patterns after a model.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who imitates.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
imitates orapes another.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who copies the words or behavior of another
- noun someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another
Etymologies
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Examples
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Robie's only hope for clearing himself will be to expose his imitator, that is if Mrs. Stevens's knock-out daughter Francie Kelly doesn't distract him too much!
John Farr: State Of Grace: The Enduring Magic of Grace Kelly John Farr 2010
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Robie's only hope for clearing himself will be to expose his imitator, that is if Mrs. Stevens's knock-out daughter Francie Kelly doesn't distract him too much!
John Farr: State Of Grace: The Enduring Magic of Grace Kelly John Farr 2010
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To end on a nicer note, imitation is flattery -- especially when the imitator is a 3-year-old dressed up for church fall festival.
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Ford can no more be called the imitator of Shakespeare than Shakespeare the imitator of Ford.
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In this view of things, Ford can no more be called the imitator of Shakespeare than Shakespeare the imitator of Ford.
The Revolt of Islam 1901
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In this view of things, Ford can no more be called the imitator of Shakespeare than Shakespeare the imitator of Ford.
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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In this view of things, Ford can no more be called the imitator of Shakespeare than Shakespeare the imitator of Ford.
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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_Mimos_ (Gr.), as I have stated in the beginning, means an "imitator," or a "mimic," and from which word we have the derivation of the words
A History of Pantomime R. J. Broadbent
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Here you may see two fine Rubens, a portrait of Philip IV of Spain, and a Silenus with Bacchantes, a great picture of James I of England with his family, painted by some "imitator" of Vandyck, though who it was in Genoa that knew both Vandyck and England is not yet clear; a Ribera, a Reni, a
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922
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Only ten pages later Book 10 will call the imitator “third from the king
Plato's Aesthetics Pappas, Nickolas 2008
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