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Definition of Imitator

1. Noun. Someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another.

2. Noun. Someone who copies the words or behavior of another.

Definition of Imitator

1. n. One who imitates.

Definition of Imitator

1. Noun. One who imitates or apes another. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Imitator

1. one that imitates [n -S] - See also: imitates

Lexicographical Neighbors of Imitator

imitates imitating imitation imitation leather imitation vanilla imitational imitations imitative imitative behaviour imitative electronic deception

imitative harmony imitative tetanus imitatively imitativeness imitativenesses imitator (current term) imitators imitatorship imitatour imitatours

imitatress imitatresses imitatrix imitatrixes imiterite immaculacies immaculacy immaculate immaculately immaculateness

Literary usage of Imitator

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Thomas, Edward Bouverie Pusey, William Benham (1909)
"CHAPTER XVIII That a man should not be a curious searcher of the sacrament, but a humble imitator of Christ, submitting his sense to holy faith Thf Voice ..."

2. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"Louis XV was the great-grandson of Louis XIV, and an incompetent imitator of his predecessor's magnificence. He posed as a king, but his ruling passion was ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Guit- tone del Viva (1230-91), known as Fra Guittone d'Arezzo, shows himself an imitator of the Provencals in his love ..."

4. The Camera and the Pencil by Marcus Aurelius Root (1864)
"Now the true artist, of whatever class, is substantially an imitator of the Supreme Proto-Artist. His leading aim is to reproduce, as exactly as possible, ..."

5. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"The " Pink 'un" is a sobriquet for the English Sporting Times, which, like its An.erican namesake and imitator, is printed on pink paper. Pipe — Eye. ..."

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