doppelganger
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- noun
- /ˈdɑːpəlˌɡæŋər/
- Literature
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doppelgänger
- The doppelganger tore away the rest of its fleshlike covering and revealed a black, misshapen head.
- doppelganger's ghost
- an evil doppelganger
And that's the underlying premise of doppelganger.
- And that's the underlying premise of doppelganger.
- That's why I like God does this a lot of times he creates doppelgangers.
Examples
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She claimed to have met her doppelganger at a café, and they looked like identical twins.
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So this killer is like his doppelganger, his bad side come to life.
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They say when you see yourself, your doppelganger... that it's time to die.
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Used to be a story, a fairy tale, that if you ever met yourself, your one true self, your doppelganger, that one of you would die, 'cause only one of you could live
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I'm being chased by a crazed doppelganger who's reading my diary!
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A more positive development is an unexpected relationship with Alex Goran (Vera Farmiga), his apparent frequent-flier doppelganger.
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Some people believe that seeing your doppelganger is an omen of bad luck.
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In the old legend, a person's doppelganger might appear before they face a life-changing event.
Synonyms
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4.7
A person who stands in for another, often in movies
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7.5
A person who looks very much like another person but is not related
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A person who looks exactly like someone else
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Etymology
Doppelganger comes from German parts doppel 'double' and gänger 'goer' or 'walker'. In old stories a 'double-walker' was like a second self that might appear beside you as a ghost, so a doppelganger is a ghostly double.