Definitions for ape
eɪpape

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. apenoun

   any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all

2. copycat, imitator, emulator, ape, apernoun

   someone who copies the words or behavior of another

3. anthropoid, apeverb

   person who resembles a nonhuman primate

4. apeverb

   imitate uncritically and in every aspect

   "Her little brother apes her behavior"

5. caricature, apeverb

   represent in or produce a caricature of

   "The drawing caricatured the President"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. apenoun

   An animal of a class of primates generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.

2. apenoun

   An uncivilised person.

3. apeverb

   To behave like an ape.

4. apeverb

   To imitate; mimic.

5. apeadjective

   Wild; crazy.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. APEnoun

   Etymology: ape, Icelandish.

   1. A kind of monkey remarkable for imitating what he sees.

   I will be more newfangled than an ape, more giddy in my desires than a monkey. William Shakespeare, As you like it.

   Writers report, that the heart of an ape worn near the heart, comforteth the heart, and increaseth audacity. It is true, that the ape is a merry and bold beast. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

   With glittering gold and sparkling gems they shine,
   But apes and monkeys are the gods within. George Granville.

   2. An imitator; used generally in the bad sense.

   Julio Romano, who, had he himself eternity, and could put breath into his work, would beguile nature of her custom: so perfectly he is her ape. William Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale.

2. To Apeverb

   To imitate, as an ape imitates human actions.

   Etymology: from ape.

   Aping the foreigners in every dress,
   Which, bought at greater cost, becomes him less. Dryden.

   Curse on the stripling! how he apes his sire!
   Ambitiously sententious! Joseph Addison, Cato.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ape

   An ape is a type of large primate that lacks a tail and is often ascribed with high levels of intelligence and sociability. This category of mammals includes various species such as gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, and bonobos, along with humans. Apes are native to Africa and Asia, and they can walk on two legs or all fours. They mainly eat plants and small animals and usually live in social groups. They have a variety of sizes, ranging from the smaller gibbons to the much larger gorillas.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Apenoun

   a quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes

2. Apenoun

   one who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic

3. Apenoun

   a dupe

4. Apeverb

   to mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally

5. Etymology: [AS. apa; akin to D. aap, OHG. affo, G. affe, Icel. api, Sw. apa, Dan. abe, W. epa.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Ape

   Apes are Old World anthropoid mammals, more specifically a clade of tailless catarrhine primates, belonging to the biological superfamily Hominoidea. The apes are native to Africa and South-east Asia. Apes are the largest primates and the orangutan, an ape, is the largest living arboreal animal. Hominoids are traditionally forest dwellers, although chimpanzees may range into savanna, and the extinct australopithecines were likely also savanna inhabitants, inferred from their morphology. Humans inhabit almost every terrestrial habitat. Hominoidea contains two families of living species: ⁕Hylobatidae consists of four genera and sixteen species of gibbon, including the lar gibbon and the siamang. They are commonly referred to as lesser apes. ⁕Hominidae consists of orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and humans. Alternatively, the hominidae family are collectively described as the great apes. There are two extant species in the orangutan genus, two species in the gorilla genus, and a single extant species Homo sapiens in the human genus. Chimpanzees and bonobos are closely related to each other and they represent the two species in the genus Pan.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Ape

   āp, n. a monkey: a monkey without a tail or with a very short one: a simian proper, linking man and the lower animals, and hence termed Anthropoid—gorilla, chimpanzee, orang-outang, or gibbon: one who plays the ape, a silly imitator: (Shak.) an imitator in a good or neutral sense.—v.t. to imitate as an ape.—ns. Ape′dom; Ape′hood; Ap′ery, conduct of one who apes, any ape-like action: a colony of apes.—adj. Ap′ish, like an ape: imitative: foppish.—adv. Ap′ishly.—ns. Ap′ishness, Ap′ism (Carlyle).—God's ape, a born fool.—To lead apes in hell, believed to be the lot of old maids there; To make any one his ape, To put an ape in his hood (obs.), to make a fool of any one. [A.S. apa; Ger. affe.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ape

   The long-tailed shark. Also, an active American seal.

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Matched Categories

1. • Imitate
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Anagrams for ape »

1. EAP

2. EPA

3. PAE

4. pea

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of ape in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of ape in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of ape in a Sentence

1. Gore Vidal:

   There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.

2. Daniel Lieberman:

   It's a glimpse into what set the human lineage on a separate evolutionary path from our ape cousins.

3. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859:

   He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.

4. Proverb:

   An ape, a priest, and a louse, are three devils in one house

5. Simone Pika:

   We have regularly observed both species interacting peacefully in foraging trees. Our colleagues from Congo even witnessed playful interactions between the two great ape species.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=ape
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ape
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=ape
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ape
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=ape
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=ape
8. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=ape