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imitator

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From French imitateur, derived from Latin imitātor, equivalent to imitate + -or.

noun imitators · imitatour

  1. A person who imitates or apes another. Chalk it up to the government’s revelations in recent years about UFOs, or maybe just the pendulum swinging back, again, after “The X-Files” inspired a host of imitators in the 1990s.

    Similar: aper

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noun one who imitates another

Españolimitador
한국어모방자 mobangja
日本語模倣者 mohōsha, 亜流 aryū
Françaisimitateur
DeutschNachahmer, Nachahmerin, Epigone, Epigonin, Nachäffer, Nachäfferin
Italianoimitatore
Ελληνικάμιμητής mimitís
Русскийимита́тор imitátor, подража́тель podražátelʹ

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@misc{imitator_2026,
  title = {imitator},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/imitator},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}