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replica

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noun

a copy or reproduction of a work of art produced by the maker of the original or under his or her supervision.
any close or exact copy or reproduction.

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RELATED WORDS

likeness, clone, miniature, facsimile, imitation, reproduction, model, copy, mimic, repeat, ditto, reduplication, photocopy, look-alike, Xerox, dupe, replication, flimsy, carbon, mimeo

Origin of replica

1815–25; < Italian: reply, repetition, derivative of replicare to repeat < Late Latin replicāre to reply

Synonyms for replica

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2. duplicate, facsimile; imitation.
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Examples from the Web for replica

Contemporary Examples of replica

Historical Examples of replica

  • Every draw was like its neighbor, every rolling rise a replica of the next.

    Oh, You Tex!

    William Macleod Raine

  • His Nell had left him in his daughter Nelly a replica of herself.

    Mary Gray

    Katharine Tynan

  • When he asked her what she wanted she replied "a replica of himself."

  • A replica is a copy of a work of art by the maker of the original.

    English Synonyms and Antonyms

    James Champlin Fernald

  • Burroughs gazed at a replica of himself as he had been at Fort Macleod.

British Dictionary definitions for replica

replica

noun

an exact copy or reproduction, esp on a smaller scale

Word Origin for replica

C19: from Italian, literally: a reply, from replicare to repeat, from Latin: to bend back, repeat
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Word Origin and History for replica
n.

1824, from Italian replica "copy, repetition, reply," from replicare "to duplicate," from Latin replicare "to repeat" (see reply (v.)). Properly, a copy of a work of art made by the original artist.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper