epigone
pronunciation
How to pronounce epigone in British English:
UK ['epɪgəʊn]
How to pronounce epigone in American English:
US ['epɪgoʊn]
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- Noun:
- an inferior imitator of some distinguished writer or artist of musician
Word Origin
- epigone (n.)
- also epigon, "undistinguished scion of mighty ancestors," (sometimes in Latin plural form epigoni), 1865, from Greek epigonoi, in classical use with reference to the sons of the Seven who warred against Thebes; plural of epigonos "offspring, successor, posterity," noun use of adjective meaning "born afterward," from epi "close upon" (in time), see epi-, + -gonos "birth, offspring," from root of gignesthai "to be born" related to genos "race, birth, descent" (see genus).
Example
- 1. The epigone is forever a shadow for can seeing first .
- 2. The epigone of keynesia undertakes explain and complementing to the economic theory of keynesia , keynesia " short-term compares a static state to analyse " development is " long-term " and " dynamic "
- 3. But there is another reading of I ek , which may be more plausible , in which he is no more an epigone of the right than he is a disciple of marx or lenin .