## Meanings
1. To copy the way someone speaks or behaves, often to make people laugh.
2. To copy or look like something else.
3. A person who is good at copying others.

## Examples
- The comedian mimicked the president's voice perfectly.
- The machine is designed to mimic the way a real kidney works.
- He's a brilliant mimic and can do dozens of accents.

## Synonyms
- mimicker

## Derived Forms
- amimic
- automimic
- biomimic
- mimical
- mimicism
- peptidomimic
- phosphomimic
- zoomimic

## Related Forms
- mime
- mimicable
- mimicry

## Etymology
From Latin mīmicus, from Ancient Greek μῑμικός (mīmikós, “belonging to mimes”), from μῖμος (mîmos, “imitator, actor”); see mime.

## AI Etymology
Mimic comes from Latin mīmicus, from Ancient Greek μῑμικός (mīmikós, “belonging to mimes”), from μῖμος (mîmos, “imitator, actor”); see mime. In present-day English its meanings include to copy the way someone speaks or behaves, often to make people laugh, to copy or look like something else, and a person who is good at copying others. Related and derived forms include mime, mimicable, mimicry, and amimic.

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