Associations to the word «Imitation»
Noun
- Originality
- Copying
- Flattery
- Satire
- Parody
- Horace
- Christ
- Virgil
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Ode
- Original
- Ovid
- Fugue
- Repetition
- Porcelain
- Perfection
- Handwriting
- Chaucer
- Cicero
- Dryden
- Tragedy
- Orator
- Likeness
- Elegy
- Ancient
- Coleridge
- Resemblance
- Ware
- Lace
- Mockery
- Ornament
- Iliad
- Chivalry
- Rhetoric
- Gesture
- Genius
- Imitation
- Admiration
- Verse
- Vase
- Antiquity
- Poetry
- Conformity
- Accent
- Invention
- Utterance
- Style
- Manner
- Poem
- Contemplation
- Ape
- Melody
- Coinage
- Genie
- Ars
- Antique
- Humility
- Imagination
- Oriental
- Renaissance
- Realism
Adjective
Wiktionary
IMITATION, noun. The act of imitating.
IMITATION, noun. A copy.
IMITATION VANILLA, noun. Synthetically produced vanillin, used in place of vanilla extract from vanilla beans.
Dictionary definition
IMITATION, noun. The doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations.
IMITATION, noun. Something copied or derived from an original.
IMITATION, noun. Copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else.
IMITATION, noun. A representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect.
IMITATION, adjective. Not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated alligator hide".
Wise words
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and
principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles
of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even
the interpretation and use of words involves a process of
free creation.