Antonyms for replica


Grammar : Noun
Spell : rep-li-kuh
Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɛp lɪ kə


Definition of replica

Origin :
  • 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.
  • noun duplicate
Example sentences :
  • Every draw was like its neighbor, every rolling rise a replica of the next.
  • Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine
  • His Nell had left him in his daughter Nelly a replica of herself.
  • Extract from : « Mary Gray » by Katharine Tynan
  • When he asked her what she wanted she replied "a replica of himself."
  • Extract from : « A Portrait of Old George Town » by Grace Dunlop Ecker
  • A replica is a copy of a work of art by the maker of the original.
  • Extract from : « English Synonyms and Antonyms » by James Champlin Fernald
  • Burroughs gazed at a replica of himself as he had been at Fort Macleod.
  • Extract from : « A Man of Two Countries » by Alice Harriman
  • In many ways Sayil is a replica of Labna, but on a grander scale.
  • Extract from : « The American Egypt » by Channing Arnold
  • Nash chapel, a mile or so to the north, is almost a replica of Boraston.
  • Extract from : « Nooks and Corners of Shropshire » by H. Thornhill Timmins
  • New York does not aim to be a replica of any foreign metropolis.
  • Extract from : « The Personality of American Cities » by Edward Hungerford
  • You see, each family is a sort of replica, in miniature, of the State.
  • Extract from : « Meccania » by Owen Gregory
  • Nor can the replica be seen to full advantage in its present position.
  • Extract from : « A Corner of Spain » by Walter Wood

Synonyms for replica

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