Adjacent Words

Counterpart definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COUNTERPART, n. [counter and part.]
1. The correspondent part; the part that answers to another, as the two papers of a contract or indentures; a copy; a duplicate. Also, the part which fits another, as the key of a cipher.
2. In music, the part to be applied to another; as, the base is the counterpart to the treble.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another [syn: counterpart, opposite number, vis-a-vis]
2: a duplicate copy [syn: counterpart, similitude, twin]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century 1. one of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument ; duplicate 2. a. a thing that fits another perfectly b. something that completes ; complement 3. a. one remarkably similar to another b. one having the same function or characteristics as another <college presidents and their counterparts in business>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a a person or thing extremely like another. b a person or thing forming a natural complement or equivalent to another. 2 Law one of two copies of a legal document. Phrases and idioms: counterpart funds US funds etc. in a local currency equivalent to goods etc. received from abroad.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Counterpart Coun"ter*part` (koun"t?r-p?rt`), n. 1. 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. --Sir M. Hale. 2. (Law) One of two corresponding copies of an instrument; a duplicate. 3. A person who closely resembles another. 4. 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. --Dryden.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(counterparts) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. Someone's or something's counterpart is another person or thing that has a similar function or position in a different place. The Foreign Secretary telephoned his Italian counterpart to protest. N-COUNT: with supp, usu poss N

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Corresponding part. 2. (Law.) Duplicate, copy. 3. Correlative, correlate, complement, supplement, reverse (to obverse). 4. Match, fellow, mate, tally, twin, the very image.

Moby Thesaurus

ally, alter ego, analogon, analogue, associate, brother, clone, close copy, close match, coequal, cognate, companion, compeer, complement, congenator, congener, coordinate, correlate, correlative, correspondent, ditto, double, dupe, duplicate, duplication, each other, equal, equipollent, equivalent, facsimile, fellow, image, kindred spirit, like, likeness, match, mate, model, near duplicate, obverse, one another, opposite number, parallel, peer, pendant, picture, quadruplicate, reciprocal, reciprocatist, reciprocator, repetition, replica, replication, representation, reproduction, rival, second self, similitude, simulacrum, sister, soul mate, such, suchlike, tally, the like of, the likes of, triplicate, twin, vis-a-vis