Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A second-rate imitator or follower, especially of an artist or a philosopher.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One born after; a successor or heir.
- noun Same as
epigonium .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
follower ordisciple . - noun An undistinguished or inferior
imitator of a well knownartist or their style.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an inferior imitator of some distinguished writer or artist of musician
Etymologies
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Examples
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I'll bet you didn't know that, after reading Bérubé's latest post about thought,I now aspire to be referred to as an "epigone" of some yet-to-be-determined person.
Archive 2006-06-01 Heo 2006
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I'll bet you didn't know that, after reading Bérubé's latest post about thought,I now aspire to be referred to as an "epigone" of some yet-to-be-determined person.
Wherein My Stream of Consciousness Becomes More Random Than Ever Before Heo 2006
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He is no longer just the arch mannerist, the etiolated epigone of Michelangelo, perverse and stylised in equal measure.
Bronzino's Medici portraits – review James Hall 2010
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In a curious irony of history, an epigone frequently becomes better known than his/her illustrious namesake and predecessor.
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In a curious irony of history, an epigone frequently becomes better known than his/her illustrious namesake and predecessor.
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But then neither did Fichte and Schelling and Kant and Hegel and Schopenhauer and Nietzsche and Heidegger; but their differences are family feuds, and the same is true of their "Catholic" epigone.
Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta chairman of the SSPX commission 2009
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The celebrated philosophical essays ( "The Myth of Sisyphus," The Rebel) are the work of an extraordinarily talented and literate epigone.
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Carmela was trying to get her Linux booted Treo 700's calendaring app to work in a Epeus 'epigone way: "This means you can take hCalendar and hCard data from the web into Outlook, into MSN's Live calendar application, and connect other apps data into and out of the browser in a nice user-obvious way."
The 2.0 Sopranos Family $1.99 on Itunes Ben Barren 2006
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Carmela was trying to get her Linux booted Treo 700's calendaring app to work in a Epeus 'epigone way: "This means you can take hCalendar and hCard data from the web into Outlook, into MSN's Live calendar application, and connect other apps data into and out of the browser in a nice user-obvious way."
Archive 2006-03-01 Ben Barren 2006
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I wrote a long paper last fall which you can find here in which I make out Gore as an epigone of Heidegger.
enowning enowning 2007
trivet commented on the word epigone
A second-rate imitator or follower, especially of an artist or a philosopher.
French épigone, from Greek Epigonoi, sons of the seven heroes against Thebes, from pl. of epigonos, born after.
September 10, 2007
reesetee commented on the word epigone
Great word, trivet!
September 10, 2007
colleen commented on the word epigone
If I copy this word from you, does that make me one?
September 12, 2007
reesetee commented on the word epigone
If it did, you'd at least be elegantly named. :-)
September 12, 2007
trivet commented on the word epigone
I'm no wordinista - yoink away.
September 12, 2007
oroboros commented on the word epigone
Cf. epitome.
September 7, 2009
bilby commented on the word epigone
Come back, all is forgiven.
October 17, 2009
quotato commented on the word epigone
The "singer" Taylor Swift is a epigone of Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks...
February 22, 2010
knitandpurl commented on the word epigone
"the very obvious references to eero saarinen and S.O.M. may have secured jacobsen's name as a cool modernist at the time, but they also made him look like an epigone with a deft hand at furniture design, a view of jacobsen you can still meet, not least here in denmark."
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October 11, 2010
A.O.Moss commented on the word epigone
I love this word.
December 8, 2010
5814738 commented on the word epigone
"In another twist to the myth, his Head of Department, the ageless and loathsome Vermishank, was not a plodding epigone but an exceptional bio-thaumaturge, who had nixed Isaac's research less because it was unorthodox than because it was going nowhere." From Perdido Street Station by China Meiville.
September 18, 2011
sionnach commented on the word epigone
that Vermishank. What an unctuous bastard.
September 18, 2011
5814738 commented on the word epigone
Heh. Yeah. Total douche bag.
September 18, 2011
qms commented on the word epigone
He copied the language and tone
The goblin prefers on the phone,
But, lacking the bite
Of soul-searing spite,
The Mooch proved a pale epigone.
August 7, 2017