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UK
/ˈɪmɪtˌeɪtɐ/
]
[ US /ˈɪməˌteɪtɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈɪməˌteɪtɝ/ ]
NOUN
- someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another
- someone who copies the words or behavior of another
How To Use imitator In A Sentence
- In the U.S. and, to a lesser extent Canada, Starbucks and its many imitators have done a good job of conditioning people to associate high quality — or, at the very least, a high price — with incinerated beans buried in steamed milk, but professional tasters have no interest in dark roasts, which taste like process, not product. Buying and brewing good coffee in Mexico
- Mr. Kanfer avoids naming Bogart's many imitators, but I can recall that even before his death Bogart's spirit glimmered in Edward R. Murrow (the trench coat, the cigarette); in Jack Kennedy (Irish toughness, Harvard wit); in old white-shoe veterans of lonely World War II parachute drops with the OSS; in the writer Lillian Hellman, until she was revealed as a sanctimonious liar not long before her death. Cool Is as Cool Was
- When Chris Evans and Oasis hit their peaks in the summer of Britpop, 1996, they spawned a wealth of imitators and copyists.
- Seemingly, they've also inspired teenage imitators. Times, Sunday Times
- Courses are taught by former or serving military personnel in public parks and the business has spread across the country and spawned various imitators. Times, Sunday Times
- He is an outstanding imitator and can impersonate all the well - known politicians.
- Like most of her online posse, Shera speaks of the group with messianic zeal, refusing to pose for any of their many imitators.
- It was thought the picture, which shows gondoliers and sailors at work in 18th century Venice, was a copy by an imitator or student of the artist and had been valued at no more than £5,000.
- The result is a stirring, crowd-pleasing yarn that remains far superior to the imitators that it spawned. Times, Sunday Times
- _Mimos_ (Gr.), as I have stated in the beginning, means an "imitator," or a "mimic," and from which word we have the derivation of the words A History of Pantomime