What is another word for imitations?

Pronunciation: [ˌɪmɪtˈe͡ɪʃənz] (IPA)

Imitations are copies or replicas of something, often made to resemble the original as closely as possible. There are many synonyms for this word, including replicas, duplicates, mimics, clones, look-alikes, and counterfeits. Replicas imply a careful and accurate replication of the original, while duplicates denote a precise and exact copy. Mimics are often used to refer to living things, such as birds or animals that can imitate sounds or movements. Clones, on the other hand, refer to genetically identical copies of an organism or substance. Look-alikes are used to describe people or things that resemble each other, while counterfeits refer to fake or fraudulent imitations that are intended to deceive. No matter the synonym used, imitations are commonly used in art, fashion, and technology industries.

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Usage examples for Imitations

When it came my turn I thought I'd get off easy by giving some of those imitations of dogs and cats and roosters that I used to get off with the crowd at home.
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump
imitations would not do.
"Command"
William McFee
She was the author, as it were, of innumerable unwritten romances, enthusiastic imitations of those Mr. Dainopoulos obediently ordered in boxes from London.
"Command"
William McFee

Famous quotes with Imitations

  • I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.
    Vaughn Monroe
  • Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
    Johann Georg Zimmermann
  • That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.
    Lydia Child
  • It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.
    Northrop Frye
  • There is a flavor that our time (perhaps surfeited by the clumsy imitations of professional patriots) does not usually perceive without some suspicion: the fundamental flavor of the heroic.
    Jorge Luis Borges

Related words: imitation, counterfeit, forgery, fake, impostor, counterfeit goods

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