Found 3 items, similar to ape.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: ape
kera
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: ape
ape
v 1: imitate uncritically and in every aspect;
“Her little
brother apes her behavior”
2: represent in or produce a caricature of;
“The drawing
caricatured the President” [syn:
caricature]
ape
n 1: any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all
2: someone who copies the words or behavior of another [syn:
copycat,
imitator,
emulator,
aper]
3: person who resembles a non-human primate [syn:
anthropoid]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Ape
Ape
\Ape\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Aped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Aping.]
To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or
follow servilely or irrationally.
“How he apes his sire.”
--Addison.
[1913 Webster]
The people of England will not ape the fashions they
have never tried. --Burke.
[1913 Webster]
Ape
\Ape\ ([=a]p), n. [AS. apa; akin to D. aap, OHG. affo, G.
affe, Icel. api, Sw. apa, Dan. abe, W. epa.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family
Simiad[ae], 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
.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The ape of the Old Testament was probably the rhesus
monkey of India, and allied forms.
[1913 Webster]
2. One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of
the ape); a mimic. --Byron.
[1913 Webster]
3. A dupe. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]