Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

meme pool

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.84 in modern English

Syllables: meme pool
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The set of all memes present in a given human population.

Example Sentences

"Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation."

Etymology

By analogy with gene pool.

Inflected Forms

meme pools (plural)

Questions

What does meme pool mean?: The set of all memes present in a given human population.
Where does meme pool come from?: By analogy with gene pool.

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