
wordlover-2015-08-03
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Today's word is doppelganger, spelled D-O-P-P-E-L-G-A-N-G-E-R. (There is a umaut or double dot over the "a" in dopoelgänger.)
Doppelgänger is a noun that means a ghostly counterpart of a living person. It can also mean a person who closely resembles another living person, or the opposite side of a personality, an alter ego. Doppelgänger also means a person who has the same name as another. Here is the word used in a sentence.
Throughout the movie, the main character is frequently mistaken for someone else, and the plot thickens when this doppelgänger turns out to be a wanted criminal.
According to age-old German folklore, all living creatures have a spirit double who is invisible but identical to the living individual. These second selves are perceived as being distinct from ghosts which appear only after death, and sometimes they are described as the spiritual opposite or negative of their human counterparts. In 1796, German writer Johann Paul Richter, who wrote under the pseudonym Jean Paul, coined the word Doppelgänger from doppel-, meaning "double," and -gänger, meaning "goer" to refer to such specters.
I'm Peter Sokolowski with your Word of the Day. |