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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

... Hunt's model was an Arab woman in Jerusalem, whose dress in all probability resembled the dress the Virgin wore two thousand years ago. The carpenter's shop he is assured is most probably an exact counterpart of the carpenter's shop in which Christ worked. How very curious! how ...

— Modern Painting • George Moore

... their domestic surroundings. For myself, I have always held that the most perfect harmonies required in either wall decoration, furniture, dress goods, or any other fabrics that color enters into, have their exact counterpart in some color tones of nature—that the russet-browns and yellows of autumn; the contrasting opalescent hues of a morning sky, rose-pink, pale blue, or delicate tea-rose yellow; the gloom of a forest with its yellow-grays and blue-grays, the gray-green moss of the ...

— Outdoor Sketching - Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914 • Francis Hopkinson Smith

... the Ohio shore—flat green fields, dotted with little white farmsteads, each set low in its apple grove, and a convoluted wall of dark hills hemming them in along the northern horizon. Then below this comes Round Bottom, its counterpart on the West Virginia side, and coursing through it a pretty ...

— Afloat on the Ohio - An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo • Reuben Gold Thwaites

... home Judge Nelson was a great man. The almost extreme modesty which characterized his public life had its counterpart in thoroughly developed domestic virtues, which not only made him beloved to devotion by all the members of his family, but endeared him to all with whom he was brought into contact. There was in his disposition ...

— The Story of Cooperstown • Ralph Birdsall

... was opening an envelope the exact counterpart of his father's. He read the note twice and stood considering ...

— Little Lost Sister • Virginia Brooks

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