anime
/ˈæn.ɪ.meɪ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.26 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An artistic style originating in, and associated with, Japanese animation, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of animated works from other countries.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Gotta get in tune with Sailor Moon / 'Cause that cartoon has got the boom anime babes / That make me think the wrong thing"
- "After three months of successful sales in manga form, it was made into an anime for television."
- "Usually the manga comes first, though it may be an offshoot of a novel, and an anime may be inspired by a video game."
- "These anime prepared the way for Otaku no video, a two-part Original Video Animation (OVA)."
- "Originally found in the opening dialogue sequence from the 1989 Japanese space shoot’em up game “Zero Wing,” this awkward translation of the phrase “all of your bases are under our control” swept across gaming message boards and forums in the late 1990s, giving rise to one of the first epic-scale “Photoshop memes” based on poorly translated quotes from Japanese video games and animes."
- "I can draw an anime version of you, if you want."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁mos Proto-Italic *anamos Latin animus Latin anima Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin animō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin animatiōlbor. English animationbor. Japanese アニメーション (animēshon)clip. Japanese アニメ (anime)bor. English anime Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), itself borrowed from English animation, from Latin animātiō, from animāre.
Origin
- Source language: English
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈæn.ɪ.meɪ/
- British English: /ˈæn.ɪ.meɪ/
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