noun
Meaning 1
An exact copy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The statue on the museum floor is an authentic replica.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
replica
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
A copy made at a smaller scale than the original.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- He collected replicas of old cars.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
copy that is not the original; something that has been copied
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: replication, reproduction
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: copy
Narrower terms: toy
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian replica, derived from Latin replicare (“to fold or bend back; to reply”). Doublet of reply and replicate.
Across languages
Translations
55 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: نُشْخَة (nušḵa) — exact copy
- Bulgarian: дубликат (dublikat) — exact copy
- Bulgarian: репродукция (reprodukcija) — exact copy
- Catalan: rèplica — exact copy
- Chinese Mandarin: 複製品 /复制品 (fùzhìpǐn) — exact copy
- Chinese Mandarin: 仿製品 /仿制品 (fǎngzhìpǐn) — exact copy
- Czech: replika — exact copy
- Esperanto: repliko — exact copy
- Finnish: jäljennös — exact copy
- Finnish: kopio — exact copy
- French: réplique — exact copy
- French: copie exacte — exact copy
- German: Nachbildung — exact copy
- German: exakte Kopie — exact copy
- Greek: αντίγραφο (antígrafo) — exact copy
- Hindi: अनुकृति (anukŕti) — exact copy
- Hindi: प्रतिलिपि (pratilipi) — exact copy
- Icelandic: eftirmynd — exact copy
- Icelandic: eftirlíking — exact copy
- Interlingua: replica — exact copy
- Irish: macasamhail — exact copy
- Italian: replica — exact copy
- Italian: copia esatta — exact copy
- Japanese: 複製 (fukusei) — exact copy
- Japanese: 写し (utsushi) — exact copy
- Japanese: 模造品 (mozōhin) — exact copy
- Japanese: レプリカ (repurika) — exact copy
- Lithuanian: kopija — exact copy
- Lithuanian: replika — exact copy
- Māori: kape — exact copy
- Plautdietsch: Aufbilt — exact copy
- Polish: kopia — exact copy
- Polish: replika — exact copy
- Portuguese: réplica — exact copy
- Portuguese: cópia exata — exact copy
- Romanian: copie — exact copy
- Romanian: copii — exact copy
- Romanian: replică — exact copy
- Romanian: reproducere — exact copy
- Russian: то́чная ко́пия (tóčnaja kópija) — exact copy
- Russian: репроду́кция (reprodúkcija) — exact copy
- Russian: ре́плика (réplika) — exact copy
- Russian: муля́ж (muljáž) — exact copy
- Spanish: réplica — exact copy
- Spanish: trasunto — exact copy
- Swedish: replika — exact copy
- Turkish: kopya — exact copy
- Turkish: replika — exact copy
- Volapük: samäd — exact copy
- Bulgarian: реплика (replika) — smaller-scale model
- Chinese Mandarin: 縮小模型 /缩小模型 — smaller-scale model
- Chinese Mandarin: 袖珍模型 — smaller-scale model
- Finnish: pienoismalli — smaller-scale model
- Hindi: प्रतिरूप (pratirūp) — smaller-scale model
- Russian: модель (modelʹ) — smaller-scale model
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