Plagiarism

Noun

 * 1)  The act of plagiarizing: the copying of another person's ideas, text, or other creative work, and presenting it as one's own, especially without permission.
 * Though plagiarism in and of itself is not illegal, it is usually frowned upon; and many cases of plagiarism involve illegal copyright violation.
 * 1)  Text or other work resulting from this act.
 * The novel contained many instances of plagiarism; in fact, some entire passages were lifted verbatim from other novelists' work.

Related terms

 * plagiarist
 * plagiarize

Adjectives for Plagiarism
phenomenal; criminal; audacious; discovered; unintentional; obvious; deliberate; bare-faced; bald.

Verbs for Plagiarism
accuse of—; resort to—; —apes; —borrows; —emulates; —mirrors; —models; —parallels; —patterns; —poaches; —purloins; — simulates; —sponges; —steals.

Thesaurus
adoption, appropriation, assumption, autoplagiarism, borrowed plumes, borrowing, copying, counterfeiting, cribbing, derivation, deriving, doubling, duplication, echo, emulation, fakery, following, forgery, hit-off, imitation, impersonation, imposture, impression, infringement, infringement of copyright, infringing, lifting, literary piracy, mimesis, mirroring, mocking, onomatopoeia, parody, pasticcio, pastiche, piracy, pirating, plagiarizing, plagiary, purloining, quotation, reappearance, rebirth, recurrence, redoubling, reduplication, reecho, regurgitation, reincarnation, renewal, reoccurrence, repetition, reproduction, resumption, return, simulation, stealing, takeoff, taking, theft, thievery, usurpation

Etymology
From.

Translations

 * Armenian: գրագողություն, բանագողություն
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 抄襲, 抄袭
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: plagiaat
 * Esperanto:


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Japanese:, 盗作
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese: plágio
 * Russian: плагиат


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 剽竊物, 剽窃物, 抄襲物, 抄袭物
 * Czech: plagiát


 * Finnish:
 * Japanese:, 盗作
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese: plágio
 * Russian: плагиат