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facsimile
NOUN

1 An exact copy, The Oxford Word of the Year 2018

especially of written or
is...
printed material.
‘a facsimile of the
manuscript’

[as modi er] ‘facsimile

editions’
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Synonyms

1.1 another term for

fax

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[WITH OBJECT]

Make a copy of.

‘the ride was facsimiled
for another theme park’ Blue Monday and the mawkish
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misnomer of ‘maudlin’
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Phrases
in facsimile
As an exact copy.

‘thirty pages are

Old English and Tolkien
reproduced in facsimile’

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Origin
Late 16th century
(originally as fac simile,
denoting the making of an
Eponymous instrument makers:
exact copy, especially of
from Sax to Stradivari
writing): modern Latin,
from Latin fac! (imperative
of facere ‘make’) and simile
'Bare' or 'Bear'?
(neuter of similis ‘like’).
Which of the following is correct?

Pronunciation the classic lm bears his name

facsimile /fakˈsɪmɪli/
the classic lm bares his name

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