Definition of Ape

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Definition of Ape

Ape

A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, 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.

One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic.

A dupe.

To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally.

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Ape Quotations

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Langston Hughes

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
H. L. Mencken

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
H. L. Mencken

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
H. L. Mencken

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
George Santayana

At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.
Baltasar Gracian

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
Baltasar Gracian

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
Honore de Balzac

Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.
Donald Rumsfeld

Ape Translations

ape in Afrikaans is aap
ape in Danish is abe
ape in Dutch is aap
ape in Finnish is apina
ape in French is singe
ape in Italian is scimmia
ape in Portuguese is macaco
ape in Spanish is mono, mica

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