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imitation
- 1) noun, the act, practice, or art of imitating; mimicry
- 2) noun, an instance or product of imitating, such as a copy of the manner of a person; impression
- 3) noun, a) a copy or reproduction of a genuine article; counterfeit b) (as modifier)
- 4) noun, (in contrapuntal or polyphonic music) the repetition of a phrase or figure in one part after its appearance in another, as in a fugue
- 5) noun, a literary composition that adapts the style of an older work to the writer's own purposes
Collins English Electronic Dictionary - Digital Edition: 2008 © HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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replica, fake, reproduction, sham, forgery, carbon copy (informal), counterfeit, counterfeit, likeness, duplication, copy, echo, resemblance, ape, simulation, mimicry, impression, parody, mockery, impersonate, artificial, mock, reproduction, dummy, synthetic, man-made, simulated, sham, pseudo (informal), ersatz, repro