Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The apparition of a living person; a double; a wraith.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
doppelganger .
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Examples
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Kestrel, the little Falcon-class that Kyra Dayis piloted, she who long and long ago rescued Guthrie from the Avantists and did battle with his doubleganger.
The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994
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Kestrel, the little Falcon-class that Kyra Dayis piloted, she who long and long ago rescued Guthrie from the Avantists and did battle with his doubleganger.
The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994
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My authorities for the last days (Williams's journal, Mary's letters, and Shelley himself) reliably document the poet's terminal hallucinations, his request for prussic acid, his nightmare encounters with his doubleganger, his weird reiteration of the formula that Faust said would do him in, and his lifelong obsession with the imagery of drowning.
Accident Rieger, James 1967
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"First of all, It sticks my doubleganger in front of my nose and gets a big kick out of scaring me half to death and now It whammies up a toy ship out of the air.
Starless Realm Ernsting, Walter 1976
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