duplicate

1. 1.

   something additional of the same kind

   “he always carried extras in case of an emergency”

   Synonymsextra

   Broaderartifact
2. 2.

   a copy that corresponds to an original exactly

   “he made a duplicate for the files”

   Synonymsduplication

   Broadercopy

   Narrowerbackupcounterpartmatch

1. 1.

   identically copied from an original

   “a duplicate key”

   Similarsame
2. 2.

   being two identical

   Synonymsmatchingtwintwinned

   Similarmatched

Other forms of duplicate

plural

duplicates·

past tense

duplicated·

present participle

duplicating·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about duplicate

What does duplicate mean?

duplicate means "make or do or perform again". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in duplicate?

duplicate has 3 syllables: du-pli-cate. The stress falls on "du". In IPA it is /ˈdupləkət/.

What is another word for duplicate?

Close synonyms include reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate, twin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is duplicate a common word?

duplicate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.