Crossword Path

Find words for crosswords, Scrabble and word games

Word entry · 9 letters

facsimile

Best crossword clue

"Exact copy"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /fækˈsɪm.ə.li/Part of speech verb, nounSorted acefiilmsStarts with FEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
1F2A3C4S5I6M7I8L9E

Mini crossword

Today's mini takes a couple of minutes.

Play the mini →

Definitions

  1. send something via a facsimile machine

Word origin

From Latin fac simile (“make like”), from fac (“make”) (imperative of facere (“make”)) + simile (neuter of similis (“like, similar”)).

Used in a sentence

  • “To paraphrase the critic of the Times, if one may make the facsimile of a human being out of bronze, why not the facsimile of a Brillo carton out of plywood?”
  • ““What is a turtle?” asked I, facsimileing the graceful attitude of Don José, and leaning both my arms full-length on the table, while I stared him undauntedly in the face, as if he had been no more than an ordinary man.”
  • “The branch at the top [of the figure] is facsimiled from that in the hand of Adam, in Durer’s Adam and Eve.”

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues

01“Exact copy”9 letters

Not quite right?

"Search similar patterns."

F________

Related words