Definition of apes Apes
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What does apes mean?
Wiktionary 
- apes (Noun)
Plural of ape.
Part of speech
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NounPlural: apes |
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| ape - any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all | ||
| primate any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet | ||
| ape - someone who copies the words or behavior of another | ||
| copycat, imitator, emulator, aper | ||
| mortal, somebody, someone, individual, person, soul a single organism | ||
| epigon, epigone an inferior imitator of some distinguished writer or artist of musician | ||
| ape - person who resembles a nonhuman primate | ||
| anthropoid | ||
| misfit someone unable to adapt to their circumstances | ||
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| ape - imitate uncritically and in every aspect; "Her little brother apes her behavior" | ||
| imitate make a reproduction or copy of | ||
| ape - represent in or produce a caricature of; "The drawing caricatured the President" | ||
| caricature | ||
| mock treat with contempt; "The new constitution mocks all democratic principles" | ||
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Wiktionary
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- ape (n.)
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. - ape (n.)
One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic. - ape (n.)
A dupe. - ape (v. t.)
To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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ape
āp, n. a monkey: a monkey without a tail or with a very short one: a simian proper, linking man and the lower animals, and hence termed Anthropoid—gorilla, chimpanzee, orang-outang, or gibbon: one who plays the ape, a silly imitator: (Shak.) an imitator in a good or neutral sense.—v.t. to imitate as an ape.—ns. Ape′dom; Ape′hood; Ap′ery, conduct of one who apes, any ape-like action: a colony of apes.—adj. Ap′ish, like an ape: imitative: foppish.—adv. Ap′ishly.—ns. Ap′ishness, Ap′ism (Carlyle).—God's ape, a born fool.—To lead apes in hell, believed to be the lot of old maids there; To make any one his ape, To put an ape in his hood (obs.), to make a fool of any one. [A.S. apa; Ger. affe.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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ape
The long-tailed shark. Also, an active American seal.
Wikipedia 
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Ape is a term that most commonly refers to nonhuman hominoids, though biologists use the word to include humans.
An ape can also be an animal.
