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Meaning of "monkeyism" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MONKEYISM

ˈmʌŋkɪˈɪzəm


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MONKEYISM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Monkeyism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MONKEYISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of monkeyism in the English dictionary

The definition of monkeyism in the dictionary is the practice of copying or behaving like a monkey.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MONKEYISM

activism · autism · Buddhism · capitalism · criticism · feminism · hedonism · ism · journalism · Judaism · mechanism · metabolism · militarism · organism · prism · professionalism · racism · realism · terrorism · tourism

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MONKEYISM

monkey bread tree · monkey business · monkey climb · monkey engine · monkey flower · monkey house · monkey jacket · monkey nut · monkey orchid · monkey puzzle · monkey shines · monkey suit · monkey tricks · monkey wrench · monkey´s wedding · monkeygland · monkeygland sauce · monkeyish · monkeypod · monkeypot

WORDS THAT END LIKE MONKEYISM

attorneyism · bogeyism · cockneyism · cronyism · dandyism · flunkeyism · fogeyism · fogyism · hackneyism · jockeyism · lobbyism · McCarthyism · nimbyism · puppyism · Puseyism · rowdyism · toadyism · Toryism · Trotskyism · voluntaryism

Synonyms and antonyms of monkeyism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «monkeyism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MONKEYISM

Find out the translation of monkeyism to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of monkeyism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «monkeyism» in English.
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monkeyism
1,325 millions of speakers
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monkeyism
570 millions of speakers
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monkeyism
510 millions of speakers
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monkeyism
380 millions of speakers
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monkeyism
280 millions of speakers
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monkeyism
278 millions of speakers
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monkeyism
270 millions of speakers
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monkeyism
260 millions of speakers
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monkeyism
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Monyet
190 millions of speakers
de

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monkeyism
180 millions of speakers
ja

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monkeyism
130 millions of speakers
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monkeyism
85 millions of speakers
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Monkeyisme
85 millions of speakers
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monkeyism
80 millions of speakers
ta

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monkeyism
75 millions of speakers
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वानिकीवाद
75 millions of speakers
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monkeyism
70 millions of speakers
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monkeyism
65 millions of speakers
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monkeyism
50 millions of speakers
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monkeyism
40 millions of speakers
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monkeyism
30 millions of speakers
el

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monkeyism
15 millions of speakers
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monkeyism
14 millions of speakers
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monkeyism
10 millions of speakers
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monkeyism
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of monkeyism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MONKEYISM»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about monkeyism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MONKEYISM»

Discover the use of monkeyism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to monkeyism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The American Stationer
"Monkeyism" in Business. New York, October 16, 1890. To the Editor of The Stationer : "Jingoism " and " monkeyism " are synonymous. " Monkeyism " in the stationery business is a fixed fact ; printers, bookbinders, lithographers, engravers, ...
‎1890
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Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
This we" will call Monkeyism — a word which, although vulgarly intelligible, we beg to intimate is of (Treek extraction. ... patient of a higher species, his folly richly deserves the penalty it must pay : the action, human though it be, is monkeyism.
William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone, 1854
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The Primitive Methodist Magazine
'No: it's monkeyism. I didn't know there was such a word until I heard a college- bred man, who ought to know, use it a good many times last night.' All at once it flashed across me that the gamekeeper was poking fun, because I had used the  ...
‎1885
4
Yankee Doodle
(wry well in their places. but very silly when they reach higher) getting ton-thvr, I and ' adoring' and 'doting' on Byron, Scott, and 'sentiiuent'-” What particular ' monkeyism' is involved in adoring and doting on BYRON and SCOTT, Yasxnl Dooou: ...
‎1847
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
You fellows worked like bricks, spent money, and got midshipman's half-pay ( nothing a day, and find yourself ) monkeyism (mune'ki-izm), n and »t<m*ej,'« affotmn<% (more kicks than half -pence). ' - □ • - Kingdey, Letter, May, I860. ( Dories.) ...
‎1911
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
You fellows worked like bricks, spent money, midshipman's half-pay (nothing a day, and find yourself) monkeyism (imrng'ki-izm), n. " 'iX mmkeu + and monkey s allovan^ (ggta" than l-jf-g^ -ism.] An action or behavio'r like tThat of a mon- icoy.
‎1906
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The Juvenile instructor and companion
Fur be it from Uncle William to entertain quite so harsh an opinion of all his young friends, but that the charge to a great extent is true, he reluctantly admits; hence his penning a few words on monkeyism. Very few of the readers of the Juvenile ...
Young people
8
Parson Jaques, and his chips and chats
From un-accountable irrational animalism, to moral responsibility and Deific relationship ! I am not ignorant of the leaping-capdbility of monkeys, but whoever saw such creatures jump the bridgeless unleapable gulf from monkeyism to manly ...
John Osborne Keen, 1884
9
Home Life in Russia
All this is pure monkeyism, nothing but monkeyism ! Because a Frenchman of forty is as childish as he was in his youth, we Russians ought to be ashamed to imitate him ! No, really, after each ball I cannot help feeling as if I had committed a  ...
Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ, Krystyn Lach-Szyrma, 1854
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The American Tyler-keystone: Devoted to Freemasonry and Its ...
Likewise, if it be held that "Masonry," prior to about 1700 A. D., was monkeyism, worshiping saints or hobgoblins, we have left ... fact that Masonry, or the thing that is known by that name today, is not monkeyism, and monkeyism is not Masonry.
John. H. Brownell, Arthur Maurice Smith, Joseph E. Morcombe, 1905
REFERENCE
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