Definitions
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- noun A
ghostly double of aliving person , especially one thathaunts such a person. - noun An
evil twin . - noun A remarkably similar double.
- noun A person who has the same name as another.
- noun A fantastic monster that takes the forms of people, usually after killing them.
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Examples
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A few minutes later the real Lance arrives at the nightclub to the amazement of Stone and Dina; he explains his doppelganger is his older brother former army intelligence specialist Barton, who still suffers from an amnesia causing blow to the head.
Hot Mahogany-Stuart Woods « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2008
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Without a context, without a narrative other than that which we have inferred, there's no way of knowing whether this doppelganger is artifice or anomaly.
Archive 2008-02-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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Without a context, without a narrative other than that which we have inferred, there's no way of knowing whether this doppelganger is artifice or anomaly.
Tim Pratt's "The Frozen One" Hal Duncan 2008
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Stalked by an enigmatic doppelganger from a preternatural realm, Joanna can feel the Light failing – which is propelling her toward a terrifying confrontation with the ultimate master of evil, the dark lord of Shadow: her father.
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The doctor has Maximillian (who, unlike his doppelganger, is capable of speech) throw our heroes in the brig, where Old Bob is their jailer.
Medieval Confessions and Concessions Lou Anders 2006
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"It was a very beautiful, bittersweet moment that was very short-lived and interrupted by the queen bee — the other me," she says referring to her doppelganger Katherine.
VIDEO: Vampire Diaries' Dobrev Calls Elena-Damon Kiss "Bittersweet" 2011
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It is, however, the beginning of the Kolchak: The Night Stalker episode “Firefall”, which is about a ghost trying to isolate and take over the life of musical composer Ryder Bond, a ghost which is called a doppelganger in the episode.
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It is, however, the beginning of the Kolchak: The Night Stalker episode “Firefall”, which is about a ghost trying to isolate and take over the life of musical composer Ryder Bond, a ghost which is called a doppelganger in the episode.
22 « January « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009
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The entry for my doppelganger was a low-tech gizmo and it caught my attention.
How Zach Braff (And I) Get Thank-You Notes Done | Lifehacker Australia 2008
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The entry for my doppelganger was a low-tech gizmo and it caught my attention.
How Zach Braff (And I) Get Thank-You Notes Done | Lifehacker Australia 2008
seanmeade commented on the word doppelganger
favorite usage: 'welcome to our world, small, amusing doppelganger.'
-- Teen Titans, Season 2
March 26, 2007
punchcard commented on the word doppelganger
A doppelgänger or fetch is the ghostly double of a living person, a sinister form of bilocation.
September 27, 2008
nuxiy commented on the word doppelganger
"dobbelgjenger" on Norwegian
April 26, 2009