imitator
nounEtymology From French imitateur, derived from Latin imitātor, equivalent to imitate + -or.
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.2021 October 22, Brian Lowry, “TV OT: The aliens are coming! The aliens are coming! Plus: ‘Curb’ and ‘Insecure’ return”, in CNN:
- Other far-right sites would gravitate to Epik. Among the first to announce its migration in early 2019 was BitChute, a YouTube imitator that had been blocked by PayPal.2021 December 9, Rob Kuznia, Curt Devine and Yahya Abou-Ghazala, “Epik is a refuge for the deplatformed far right. Here’s why its CEO insists on doing it”, in CNN:
- Derived terms
- great imitator, imitatorship, imitatress
- Related terms
- imitate