Associations to the word «Meme»

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.

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".