Definitions
A person or thing with a similar role or function in another place or group.
Word origin
From Middle English conterpart, countre parte (“duplicate of a legal document”), equivalent to counter- + part. Compare Old French contrepartie, itself from contre (“facing, opposite”) (from Latin contra (“against”)) + partie (“copy of a person or thing”) (originally past participle of partīre (“to divide”)).
Used in a sentence
“Those brass knobs and their hollow counterparts interlock perfectly.”
“Mr. Obama never found a generational counterpart among conservatives in Congress like Paul D. Ryan or Eric Cantor; instead, there was a mutual animosity.”
“Her French counterpart attended the meeting via video call.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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