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Definition of Doppelganger
1. Noun. A ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living counterpart.
Definition of Doppelganger
1. Noun. A ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts such a person. ¹
2. Noun. An evil twin. ¹
3. Noun. A remarkably similar double. ¹
4. Noun. A person who has the same name as another. ¹
5. Noun. A fantastic monster that takes the forms of people, usually after killing them. ¹
6. Noun. (alternative spelling of doppelganger) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Doppelganger
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doppelganger
Literary usage of Doppelganger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jail journal, or, Five years in British prisons by John Mitchel (1854)
"The Ego leaves Herr doppelganger not a Leg to stand upon—" Arterial Drainage."
JVm. 7th, 1848—In my cell, Dromedary Hulk ..."
2. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1910)
"THE doppelganger From 'The Secret Life.' Copyright, John Lane Company, 1906, »nd
used by permission of the author and publishers. ..."
3. The Singing of the Future by David Thomas Ffrangcon- Davies (1905)
"The doppelganger.—Artificial artistic enjoyment, "charm," "personality," "vengeance."—Sims
Reeves's dictum: artist the master, not the public; ..."
4. The Theosophical Review by Theosophical Publishing Society (London, England) (1890)
"The doppelganger too seemed to be growing more material and tangible, and I thought
... And death ! what death of the body could touch that doppelganger, ..."
5. Main Currents in Nineteenth, Century Literature by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (1906)
"It is this which gives birth to the Romantic idea of the " doppelganger,"* an
idea which ... There being no exact English equivalent of "doppelganger" and ..."
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