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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A copy or reproduction of a work of art, especially one made by the original artist.
  • noun A copy or reproduction, especially one on a scale smaller than the original.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A work of art made in exact likeness of another and by the same artist, differing from a copy in that it is held to have the same right as the first made to be considered an original work.
  • noun In music, same as repeat, 2.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Fine Arts) A copy of a work of art, as of a picture or statue, made by the maker of the original.
  • noun (Mus.) Repetition.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An exact copy.
  • noun A copy made at a smaller scale of the original.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun copy that is not the original; something that has been copied

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Italian, from replicare, to repeat, from Late Latin replicāre; see replicate.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Italian, from Latin replicare ("to copy")

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synonyms (49)

Words with the same meaning

  1. Doppelganger
  2. actual thing
  3. burlesque
  4. carbon copy
  5. clone
  6. copy
  7. counterpart
  8. dead ringer
  9. ditto
  10. double
  11. dummy
  12. dupe
  13. duplicate
  14. duplication
  15. equivalent
  16. exact counterpart
  17. facsimile
  18. homograph
  19. homonym
  20. homophone
  21. idem
  22. identical same
  23. imitation
  24. knockoff
  25. likeness
  26. mock-up
  27. model
  28. no other
  29. none other
  30. paraphrase
  31. parody
  32. photocopy
  33. quadruplicate
  34. repetition
  35. replication
  36. representation
  37. reproduction
  38. selfsame
  39. spit and image
  40. spitting image
  41. synonym
  42. the same
  43. the same difference
  44. travesty
  45. triplicate
  46. twin
  47. version
  48. very image
  49. very same

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. copy

hyponyms (1)

Words more specific or concrete

  1. toy

same context (8)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. Dior
  2. effigy
  3. facsimile
  4. handbag
  5. heur
  6. likeness
  7. reproduction
  8. submariner

relateds (4)

relateds

  1. replicant
  2. replicate
  3. replication
  4. reply

cross-references (1)

Cross-references

  1. wallace-thorpe replica

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  • Prolagus commented on the word replica

    How many "Rolex replicas" email can a person receive in one day?

    August 22, 2008

  • reesetee commented on the word replica

    I receive many, many replicas of that e-mail, Pro.

    August 22, 2008