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/kˈaʊntərpˌɑrt/ /kˈaʊnərpˌɑrt/ Listen

noun

Counterpart n.

A part corresponding to another part; anything which answers, or corresponds, to another; a copy; a duplicate; a facsimile. "In same things the laws of Normandy agreed with the laws of England, so that they seem to be, as it were, copies or counterparts one of another."

(Law) One of two corresponding copies of an instrument; a duplicate.

A person who closely resembles another.

A thing may be applied to another thing so as to fit perfectly, as a seal to its impression; hence, a thing which is adapted to another thing, or which supplements it; that which serves to complete or complement anything; hence, a person or thing having qualities lacking in another; an opposite. "O counterpart Of our soft sex, well are you made our lords."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Counterpart" Quotes from Famous Books

... the faithful in the path of truth. He was to be in the hierarchy of the Church what the sun is in the planetary system—the centre around which all would revolve. And is it not a beautiful spectacle, in harmony with our ideas of God's providence, to behold in His Church a counterpart of the starry system above us? There every planet moves in obedience to a uniform law, all are regulated by one great luminary. So, in the spiritual order, we see every member of the Church governed by one law, controlled by one voice, and ...

— The Faith of Our Fathers • James Cardinal Gibbons

... those which had been made a month earlier by MM. Hebert and Lartet, in the hope of verifying the true position of the fossils, but all of us without success. We failed even to find in situ any exact counterpart of the stone of ...

— The Antiquity of Man • Charles Lyell

... and sharpest, and most easily evoked by the foot. Our discovery,—for I trust I may regard it as such,—adds a third locality to two previously known ones, in which what may be termed the musical sand,—no unmeet counterpart to the "singing water" of the tale,—has now been found. And as the island of Eigg is considerably more accessible than Jabel Nakous, in Arabia Petraea, or Reg-Rawan, in the neighborhood of Cabul, there must be facilities presented through the discovery ...

— The Cruise of the Betsey • Hugh Miller

... Irish counterpart, too," said Leila Brown, who rather specializes, you know, on all those lovely Lady Gregory things. "I have always wondered why Yeats or Synge hasn't ...

— Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers • Don Marquis

... stream of omnibuses is quite as unbroken as the stream of electric and cable cars in New York; our van traffic is at least as heavy; and we have in addition the host of creeping "growlers" and darting hansoms, which is almost without counterpart in New York. I know of no crossing in New York so trying to the nerves as Piccadilly Circus or Charing Cross (Trafalgar Square). The intersection of Broadway, Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street, at Madison Square, is the nearest approach to these bewildering ...

— America To-day, Observations and Reflections • William Archer

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