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doubleganger

doubleganger noun: a doppelganger.

Noun

doubleganger (plural doublegangers)

  1. A doppelganger.
    • Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. You speak like Hereward, you look like Hereward. Just what Hereward would be now, you are.1866, C[harles] Kingsley, “How Hereward Cleared Bourne of Frenchmen”, in Hereward the Wake, “Last of the English.” […], volume I, London; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 358

Forms of doubleganger

pluraldoublegangers

Origin of doubleganger

Partial calque of German Doppelgänger, equivalent to double + ganger.

Questions about doubleganger

What does doubleganger mean?
Doubleganger means a doppelganger.
What part of speech is doubleganger?
Doubleganger is a noun.
What is the plural of doubleganger?
The plural of doubleganger is doublegangers.

Words near doubleganger in the dictionary

  1. doubledealing
  2. doubledecker
  3. doubledeckers
  4. doubledome
  5. doubledomes
  6. doubleganger
  7. doublegangers
  8. doublegee
  9. doublegees
  10. doublehand
  11. doublehanded

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