A popular concept which spreads quickly through the internet via social networking sites, emails and other popular forms of internet communication: an example of this is the popularity of Lolcats.

An idea, joke or concept that people share. Meme’s can be images or videos or text. Typically a meme comes in the form of an image with supportive text.

Meme comes from the Greek word “mimema” (meaning “something imitated). It is a virally-transmitted cultural symbol or social idea. A meme (captioned photo/ video) behaves like a flu or a cold virus, t [..]

This term is used to describe a concept, idea or joke that’s widely shared online. Typically, it’s an image with a text.

A piece of content spreading online from user to user and changing along the way. Grumpy Cat and Numa Numa dance were two popular memes.

1976, introduced by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in "The Selfish Gene," coined by him from Greek sources, such as mimeisthai "to imitate" (see mime), and intended to echo [..]

In the context of web logs / 'blogs / blogging and other kinds of personal web sites it's a kind of list of questions that you saw somewhere else and you decided to answer the questions. This is passed on and repeated as others see them.

An idea or pattern of thought that "replicates" like a virus by being passed along from one thinker to another. A meme might be a song or advertising jingle that gets stuck in one� [..]

a unit of cultural, as opposed to genetic, inheritance. Recent research supports Susan Blackmore's theory that the human brain evolved rapidly to make itself a better habitat for human memes. Such memes would be available for sexual selection.

A meme is a concept or behavior that spreads from person to person. Examples of memes include beliefs, fashions, stories, and phrases. In previous generations, memes typically spread within local cult [..]

/meem/ [coined on analogy with `gene' by Richard Dawkins] n. An idea considered as a replicator, esp. with the connotation that memes parasitize people into propagating them much as viruses do. U [..]

A meme is a piece of information that is passed from one entity (person, book, etc.) to another. Often memes are social or cultural in nature and are ways aspects of culture are passed from person to [..]

A piece of media that spreads via the Internet

In The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins defines a meme as "a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation." Many people use the word meme to refer to self spreading or viral ideas.

An idea that, like a gene, can replicate and evolve. Examples of memes (and meme systems) include political theories, proselytizing religions, and the idea of memes itself.

Richard Dawkins coined this term in "The Selfish Gene"(1976), meaning "a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation." A meme comprises a unit or element of cultural idea [..]

A meme is an idea or concept passed from person to person. An Internet meme can spread very quickly via e-mail or social networks. One example is a YouTube video that goes viral, viewed hundreds of th [..]

A project that is intended to be adapted when it is passed from person to person

a concept that spreads via the Internet; a meme may evolve or spread quickly (become viral).

Typically a funny picture with an even funnier caption. Used like an image. Widely used across social media sites. 

(n) a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation)

A unit of cultural inheritance. Ideas evolve and their success is based on their ability to spread like genes do. (The term was coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book, “The Selfish Gene.”

An onomatopoeia of the sound heard when a meme is shared: “Me! Me!”

is a theoretical concept introduced by Richard Dawkins, in his book The Selfish Gene in 1976. Meme is derived from a shortening of the Greek "mimeme" (something imitated) and shortened so that it sounds similar to "gene". Meme refers to any unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice, idea or concept, which one min [..]

A meme is a snippet of cultural information that spreads person to person until eventually it enters the general consciousness.

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