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replica

[ rep-li-kuh ]

noun

  1. a copy or reproduction of a work of art produced by the maker of the original or under their supervision.
  2. any close or exact copy or reproduction.

    Synonyms: imitation, facsimile, duplicate



replica

/ ˈrɛplɪkə /

noun

  1. an exact copy or reproduction, esp on a smaller scale


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Word History and Origins

Origin of replica1

First recorded in 1815–25; from Italian: “reply, repetition,” derivative of replicare “to repeat” from Late Latin replicāre “to reply

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Word History and Origins

Origin of replica1

C19: from Italian, literally: a reply, from replicare to repeat, from Latin: to bend back, repeat

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Example Sentences

Fans have used the hit block-building game to create replicas of everything from downtown Chicago and King’s Landing to working CPUs.

That was the largest possible scale replica that could fit inside an acoustic chamber at the University of Salford in England, where Cox works.

The full-scale replica allows NASA to see how easily crew members could load and unload supplies and equipment.

From Fortune

I wake up wishing that my couch was a replica of the sofa in Coco Chanel’s Parisian apartment.

Encircling the pseudo-planet would be a spiral stairway running more than half a mile long, leading up to a “North Pole,” where a replica of one of Columbus’ ships would be docked, awaiting visitors.

From Ozy

On the piano is a portrait of Lizzie, and replica skulls of the Bordens are displayed in the dining room.

Two Rivers functions like a fanboy gift shop with impeccable replica items.

The duchess sat at a replica radio to hear, learn about, and decipher morse code.

In his new video for “I Want the Love,” Puff Daddy sits tight on what appears to be a pretty good replica of the iron throne.

It features a mirror finished replica of a Steinway Grand and incorporates innovative multi-sensorial audio technology.

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

For me every crude wooden cross that rises in the fields has this human replica of the Calvary.

Waiting, while I held the mirror in front of me and slowly made my face into an exact replica of his.

Here it frequently occurs that a sick man lays a wax replica of the diseased part of his body upon the altar of the saint.

A replica of the Hermes of Praxiteles—of course only the bust—stood in the hall with a real palm behind it.

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