Meaning & use
doppelganger
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a person who looks strikingly like another, unrelated person; a double.
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Strangers keep telling me I have a doppelganger who works downtown.
In the story, the doppelganger appears as an omen of the protagonist's death.
A note on using this word
Borrowed from German, where it originally referred to a ghostly double or apparition of a living person, a sense still used in folklore and fiction.
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