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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Doppelganger \Dop"pel*g["a]ng`er\, n. [G.] A spiritual or ghostly double or counterpart; esp., an apparitional double of a living person; a cowalker.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts such a person. 2 An evil twin. 3 A remarkably similar double. 4 (context fantasy English) A monster that takes the forms of people, usually after killing them.
n. (alternative spelling of doppelganger English)
WordNet
n. a ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living counterpart
Wikipedia
In fiction and folklore, a doppelgänger or doppelga(e)nger ( or ; , literally "double-goer") is a look-alike or double of a living person, sometimes portrayed as a paranormal phenomenon, and is usually seen as a harbinger of bad luck. In other traditions and stories, they recognize one's 'double-goer' as an evil twin.
The word 'doppelgänger' is often used in a more general sense to describe any person who physically or behaviorally resembles another person.
Doppelgänger is the fifth studio album by Christian alternative rock band Daniel Amos issued on their own Alarma! Records label in 1983. It is the second album in their ¡Alarma! Chronicles album cycle.
A doppelgänger is an apparition or double of a living person in folklore and fiction.
Doppelgänger may also refer to:
Doppelgänger is a 1969 British science fiction film directed by Robert Parrish and starring Roy Thinnes, Ian Hendry, Lynn Loring and Patrick Wymark. Outside Europe, it is known as Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, which is now the more popular title. In the film, a joint European- NASA mission to investigate a planet in a position parallel to Earth, behind the Sun, ends in disaster with the death of one of the astronauts (Hendry). His colleague (Thinnes) discovers that the planet is a mirror image of Earth.
The first major live-action film of Century 21 writers-producers Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, noted for Thunderbirds and other 1960s " Supermarionation" puppet television series, shooting for Doppelgänger ran from July to October 1968. Using Pinewood Studios as the principal production base, Parrish also filmed on location in both England and Portugal. The professional relationship between the Andersons and their director became strained as the shooting progressed, while creative disagreements with cinematographer John Read resulted in his resignation from Century 21.
Doppelgänger premiered in August 1969 in the United States and October of that year in the United Kingdom. Although the film in general has been praised for the quality of its special effects and set design, the plot device of the parallel Earth has attracted criticism, with some commentators judging it to be clichéd and uninspired in comparison to the precedent established by earlier science fiction. In addition, although Doppelgänger has frequently been interpreted as a pastiche of major science-fiction films of the 1960s, including 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), some of the devices and imagery used have been dismissed as weak imitations of the originals. Since release, it has been termed a cult film.
Actors and props from Doppelgänger would re-appear in a later Anderson TV series, UFO. Although the Andersons incorporated adult themes into their script in an effort to distinguish the film from their children's TV productions, cuts to more mature content, in this case a shot of a pack of contraceptive pills, were required to permit an A and, later, PG certificate from the BBFC. The film has had only a limited DVD run.
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, Doppelgangers are monstrous humanoids, identified primarily by their ability to change their shape and appearance to mimic almost any humanoid creature. They can be used in the game by Dungeon Masters as allies or opponents of the player characters.
The Doppelganger, also called the Spider-Doppelganger, is a fictional character and supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It first appeared in The Infinity War #1.
Doppelgänger is the second full-length album from American rock band The Fall of Troy, which followed up the band's bootlegged Ghostship demos from 2004 as well as their self-titled LP from 2003. Four of the songs ("I Just Got This Symphony Goin'", "F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X.", "Mouths Like Sidewinder Missiles", "Whacko Jacko Steals the Elephant Man's Bones") were re-recorded versions of tracks from the self-titled album, hence the name Doppelgänger. "Macaulay McCulkin" was taken from the Ghostship EP.
Doppelganger (also known as Doppelganger: The Evil Within) is a 1993 American supernatural thriller film starring Drew Barrymore.
Doppelgänger is the fourth studio album by The Grid. It was released in March 2008, after a break of more than ten years. Guest artists include Robert Fripp on "Mighty Heroik" and Chris Braide on "Closer", "Be Here With You", "Fools Rush In" and "Feed Your Mind".
Doppelganger, also published under the title Warrior, is a high fantasy novel written by Marie Brennan that chronicle the adventures of Miryo, a witch, and Mirage, her doppelgänger.
'Doppelgänger ' is the debut studio album by British alternative band Curve. It was released on 9 March 1992 by Anxious Records in the United Kingdom, and by Charisma Records in the United States.
A continuation of the musical idiom established by the group on its three earlier EPs, the record combines elements of dance music and alternative rock with the reverb- and distortion-heavy stylings of " shoegazing".
is a 2003 Japanese black comedy film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Koji Yakusho, Hiromi Nagasaku and Yusuke Santamaria.
Doppelganger is the fourth studio album by Kid Creole and the Coconuts, released in 1983. It was reissued by Universal Island Records with bonus tracks added to album in 2002.
Usage examples of "doppelganger".
The doppelganger jumped when the slight woman appeared from the shadows.
Tamoko bowed deeply, never looking at the doppelganger or the dead ogre.
Some were convinced that nearly every city and realm on Faerun had at least one doppelganger in its political structure.
Finished, he sent them off to the temple of Gond where they were to elicit the aid of priests who apparently had the ability to recognize a doppelganger when they saw one.
Tamoko turned at the sound of the opening door, and a doppelganger strode slowly, reluctantly into the room.
She regarded the doppelganger coldly, having no love for these creatures who were without selves.
Sarevok said to the doppelganger, and the creature dropped instantly to its knees.
The doppelganger skittered back on its haunches in a desperate attempt to avoid the voicelike it had sent a shock wave across the still chamber.
The doppelganger saw that much, at least, written plainly in her eyes.
The doppelganger had managed to transform in the eye blink it took for her to attack.
The doppelganger managed to parry one attack after another, and it was soon dancing lightly on its toes in much the same way as Tamoko.
In less than a minute Tamoko knew the doppelganger was running through her own experiences in rapid chronological order.
This doppelganger was afraid of Sarevokan easy assumptionbut it was also afraid of birdsirrationally afraid.
The doppelganger continued on its wayactually paused twice to sell flowers to passersbythen slipped into another alley without ever looking behind it.
Abdel and Jaheira circled around quickly and were at the other end of the alley before the doppelganger emerged, this time in the form of a burly laborer in mud-stained coveralls.