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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

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

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

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

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

If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon.
Ann Coulter

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

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

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.
Konrad Lorenz

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
Jean Rostand

We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.
Richard Leakey

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.
Mary McCarthy

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
Dean Inge

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.
Laurence Olivier

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
Arthur Helps

It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
Cornelia Otis Skinner

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
Desmond Morris

A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.
Paul Scofield

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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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