Associations to the word «Meme»

Wiktionary

MEME, noun. Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.
MEME, noun. (Internet) (slang) Something that is copied and circulated online with slight adaptions, including quizzes, basic pictures, video templates etc.
MEME POOL, noun. (philosophy) The set of all memes present in a given human population, in an analogy to gene pool.

Dictionary definition

MEME, noun. A cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation); "memes are the cultural counterpart of genes".

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.
Noam Chomsky