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doppelganger

dop·pel·gäng·er
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [dop-uh l-gang-er; German daw-puh l-geng-er]
    • /ˈdɒp əlˌgæŋ ər; German ˈdɔ pəlˌgɛŋ ər/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [dop-uh l-gang-er; German daw-puh l-geng-er]
    • /ˈdɒp əlˌgæŋ ər; German ˈdɔ pəlˌgɛŋ ər/

Definitions of doppelganger word

  • noun doppelganger a ghostly double or counterpart of a living person. 1
  • noun doppelganger A ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts such a person. 1
  • noun doppelganger a ghostly counterpart of a living person 0
  • noun doppelganger a ghostly duplicate of a living person 0
  • noun doppelganger the supposed ghostly double or wraith of a living person 0
  • noun doppelganger An evil twin. 0

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Origin of doppelganger

First appearance:

before 1850
One of the 32% newest English words
1850-55; < German: literally, double-walker

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Parts of speech for Doppelganger

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

doppelganger popularity

This term is known only to a narrow circle of people with rare knowledge. Only 3% of English native speakers know the meaning of this word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for doppelganger

noun doppelganger

  • apparition — An apparition is someone you see or think you see but who is not really there as a physical being.
  • spirit — the principle of conscious life; the vital principle in humans, animating the body or mediating between body and soul.
  • double — twice as large, heavy, strong, etc.; twofold in size, amount, number, extent, etc.: a double portion; a new house double the size of the old one.
  • look-alike — a person or thing that looks like or closely resembles another; double.
  • mirror image — an image of an object, plan, person, etc., as it would appear if viewed in a mirror, with right and left reversed.

Antonyms for doppelganger

noun doppelganger

  • being — Being is the present participle of be1.

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