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replica

nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈɹɛplɪkə//

An exact copy.

noun

  1. 1

    An exact copy.

    The statue on the museum floor is an authentic replica.

    Promontory's "last spike" ceremony was so significant to the USA's history that it is still regularly re-enacted today, using replica locomotives that nose up to each other just as the originals did.

  2. 2

    A copy made at a smaller scale than the original.

    He collected replicas of old cars.

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian replica, derived from Latin replicare (“to fold or bend back; to reply”). Doublet of reply and replicate.

Forms

plural
replicas, repliche
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).