Counterpart Definition

kountər-pärt
counterparts
noun
counterparts
One that closely resembles another.
American Heritage
A person or thing that corresponds to or closely resembles another, as in form or function.
Webster's New World
A copy or duplicate, as of a lease.
Webster's New World
A thing which, when added to another, completes or complements it.
Webster's New World
One of two parts that fit and complete each other.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Counterpart

Noun

Singular:
counterpart
Plural:
counterparts

Origin of Counterpart

  • Recorded since 1451, originally as countre part "duplicate of a legal document", from Old French contrepartie, itself from contre "facing, opposite" (from Latin contra 'against') + partie "copy of a person or thing," originally past participle of partir "to divide".

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Counterpart Sentence Examples

  • The active contraction of muscular tissue has no counterpart in the plant.

  • She grabbed the moisturizer and its cleansing counterpart and eye moisturizer.

  • Thus an organ newly discovered in Scorpio was found to have its counterpart in Limulus.

  • Both in its inner nature then and outward effects the Eucharist was the Christian counterpart of these two other forms of communion of which one, the heathen, was excluded from the first, and the other, the Jewish, soon to disappear.

  • Asceticism is thus the counterpart of medieval mysticism; and, by his example as well as by his teaching in such passages, St Bernard unhappily encouraged practices which necessarily resulted in self-delusion.

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Words Starting With

CCOCOU

Words Ending With

TRTART

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Words Starting With C and Ending With T

Starts With C & Ends With TStarts With CO & Ends With TStarts With C & Ends With RT

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11 Letter Words11 Letter Words Starting With C11 Letter Words Ending With T