doppelganger
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- noun
- /ˈdɑːpəlˌɡæŋər/
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doble
- Luke discovers he has a doppelganger, a wife, five kids, and a mortgage.
- meet your doppelganger
where Spencer found out there's a website where you can create or see your own doppelgangers around the world.
- where Spencer found out there's a website where you can create or see your own doppelgangers around the world.
- One of my favorite segments that we've done on the show is reviewing doppelgangers of you guys.
- One is that the name Luam will come up, and there are these characters called the Luam's who are kind of doppelgangers of one another.
- And then there's someone that looks like William Barr or a doppelganger William Barr attending that camp that year.
- Anecdotally, you know, I have seen it work quite well when Juan Ton Tat has run Clearview searches on my own face, there are no doppelgangers who come back.
Examples
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I turned my head to see my understandably freaked-out father staring at his doppelganger (in the same outfit).
Blog text (20) -
Sure, so I do have a doppelganger, by which I mean a person who I am perennially confused and conflated with.
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But I never thought I'd find myself sitting opposite my own doppelganger, in his office, - like this.
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Man Finds His Doppelganger at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Blog text (32) -
"We've got to decide, first, who's the real Adrian and who is the doppelganger," Adrian said.
Fiction book (2001) -
On November 11, Max Galuppo, 20, of Bloomsbury, NJ, encountered his doppelganger (aka his double) at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Blog text (32) -
They are unwilling to see there is something—a phenomenon, a revelation—happening here with all these doppelganger shenanigans.
Blog text (9) -
A doppelganger of sorts had emerged from his body: a little stoop-shouldered man, thin and frail, making small poking gestures with his cane as he leaned forward.
Fiction book (2001) -
When I saw him in the cafe, I couldn't believe my eyes; he was my doppelganger, looking exactly like me.
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At the party, everyone kept saying she was my doppelganger because of our striking resemblance.
Synonyms
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A person who is very like another in look or actions
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3.8
A person who looks or acts very like another person
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3.7
A person or thing that looks exactly like another one
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7.5
A person who looks very much like another person but is not related
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3.9
A person who is very similar in appearance to another person, often a famous person
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7.4
A person who looks exactly like someone else
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3.5
A person or thing that looks very similar to another, often a famous person
A person or thing that looks almost the same as another
How Similar
- Informal
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- Informal
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3.7
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7.8
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4.7
Surface Forms
Etymology
Doppelganger comes from German parts doppel 'double' and gänger 'goer' or 'walker'. So someone who looks almost exactly like you is like your 'double' who could walk in your place, which is why we call a look-alike a doppelganger.