ape leader
An old maid.
ape
/eɪp/
noun 6verb 2adj 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
big, bipedal, closest, great, intelligent, live, male, missing
VERB + APE
cannot, descended, don't, draw, like, link, looked, play
APE + NOUN
apes, cousins, figs, fingers, gravity, hath, mammal, man
PREP.
around, between, from, from, in, with
ADV.
only
Definitions
noun
1
A primate of the superfamily Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.
Of vvhat texte thou proveſt hell / vvill a nother prove purgatory / a nother lymbo patrum / and a nother the aſſumpcion of oure ladi: And a nother ſhall prove of the ſame texte that an Ape hath a tayle.
2
Any such primate other than a human.
3
An unintelligent or unsophisticated person, especially one who behaves irrationally or in an uncivilised manner.
4
One who apes; a foolish imitator.
5
A black person.
verb
1
To behave like an ape.
2
To imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly.
And well their dignity it ſuits, / To ape the gravity of brutes.
But there’s this difference; one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver.
adj
1
Wild; crazy.
We were ape over the new look.
He went ape when he heard the bad news.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — person who resembles a nonhuman primate
verb — represent in or produce a caricature of
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
naked ape
A human being.
What, after all, can a poor naked ape do?
Example Bank
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Of vvhat texte thou proveſt hell / vvill a nother prove purgatory / a nother lymbo patrum / and a nother the aſſumpcion of oure ladi: And a nother ſhall prove of the ſame texte that an Ape hath a tayl
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And well their dignity it ſuits, / To ape the gravity of brutes.
Wiktionary03
But there’s this difference; one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver.
Wiktionary04
It is not conceived as a mere “aping” in externals nor as an enacting in the sense of assuming a foreign role.
Wiktionary05
We were ape over the new look.
Wiktionary06
He went ape when he heard the bad news.
WiktionaryUsage Notes
i Register
In some senses, ape is marked as derogatory, offensive, slang. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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