doppelganger
pronunciation
How to pronounce doppelganger in British English:
UK ['dɒpelɡɑ:nɡər]
How to pronounce doppelganger in American English:
US ['dɒpelɡɑnɡər]
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- Noun:
- a ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living counterpart
Word Origin
- doppelganger
- doppelganger: [19] English borrowed doppelganger from German doppelgänger, which means literally ‘double-goer’. It was originally used in the sense ‘ghostly apparition of a living person, especially one that haunts its real counterpart’ (‘hell-hounds, doppel-gangers, boggleboes’, M A Denham, Denham tracts 1851), but in the course of the 20th century it has become increasingly restricted to a flesh-andblood ‘person identical to another, double’.=> double
- doppelganger (n.)
- 1830, from German Doppelgänger, literally "double-goer," originally with a ghostly sense. See double + gang (n.). Sometimes half-anglicized as doubleganger.
Example
- 1. We saw the fifth doppelganger !
- 2. That 's prince 's doppelganger ?
- 3. I 'm gonna go lay eyes on my precious doppelganger .
- 4. You found a way to save the life of the doppelganger ?
- 5. You mean you have a cat that 's prince 's doppelganger ?