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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesplagiat
Pronunciation / Transliteration: pla-ʒja
"Le professeur a détecté du plagiat dans son devoir."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
"The university expelled the student for academic dishonesty involving widespread plagiarism in his thesis." - 2
Something copied and passed off as one's own; an act of appropriating text or art.
"The committee concluded that the newly published novel was a blatant plagiarism of a lesser-known 19th-century work."
Thesaurus & Semantic Spectrum
Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from the Latin plagiarius (meaning kidnapper or literary thief), which stems from plaga (a net or snare). The term entered the English language in the early 17th century, shifting from physical kidnapping to the appropriation of intellectual property and written works.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Plagiarism" is said worldwide
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plagiat
Transliteration: pla-ʒja
"Le professeur a détecté du plagiat dans son devoir."
Plagiat
Transliteration: plaɡiˈaːt
"Seine Doktorarbeit enthielt mehrere Fälle von Plagiat."
plagio
Transliteration: ˈpla.dʒo
"L'autore è stato accusato di plagio."
plagio
Transliteration: ˈpla.xjo
"El artículo fue retirado debido a un evidente plagio."
plágio
Transliteration: ˈpla.ʒi.u
"O software foi projetado para detectar plágio em redações."
साहित्यिक चोरी
Transliteration: sahityik chori
"शोध पत्र में साहित्यिक चोरी एक गंभीर अपराध है।"
抄袭
Transliteration: chāoxí
"学校对考试作弊和抄袭采取零容忍态度。"
표절
Transliteration: pyojeol
"그 논문은 심각한 표절 문제로 인해 철회되었습니다."
盗作
Transliteration: tousaku
"彼の小説には他作品からの盗作の疑いがある。"
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