Replica
['replɪkə] or ['rɛplɪkə]
Definition
(noun.) copy that is not the original; something that has been copied.
Typed by Beryl--From WordNet
Definition
(v. & n.) A copy of a work of art, as of a picture or statue, made by the maker of the original.
(v. & n.) Repetition.
Typed by Geraldine
Definition
n. (paint.) a copy of a picture done by the same hand that did the original: (mus.) the same as repeat.
Inputed by Conrad
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A reproduction of a work of art by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a 'copy which is made by another artist. When the two are made with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is supposed to be more beautiful than it looks.
Editor: Nat
Examples
- Everything is a ghoulish replica of the real world, a replica, a ghoul, all soiled, everything sordid. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The animal is about the size of a horse and quite gentle, but in color and shape an exact replica of his huge and fierce cousin of the wilds. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
Checker: Prudence