mème
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from English meme, shortened from mimeme, coined from Ancient Greek μῑμέομαι (mīméomai).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛm/
Audio (France): (file) Audio (Switzerland): (file) Audio (Canada): (file) - Homophones: mèmes (general), même, mêmes (except regionally)
Noun
mème m (plural mèmes)
- meme (unit of cultural information)
- (Internet memes, slang) meme
- 2020 October 7, Corentin Lamy, “« Mèmes décentralisés », ou l’humour Web qui se moque autant de Paris que de la province”, in Le Monde:
- Son avenir, le duo le voit d’ailleurs plutôt sur Instagram que sur Facebook, la plate-forme d’échange d’images étant devenue le nouvel eldorado du mème.
- Incidentally, the pair think it has more of a future on Instagram than on Facebook, the image-sharing platform having become the new El Dorado of the meme.
Further reading
mème on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
