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simulacrum

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10 lettersPronunciation /ˌsɪmjʊˈleɪkɹəm/Part of speech nounSorted acilmmrsuuStarts with SEnds with M0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)

Word origin

Learned borrowing from Latin simulācrum (“image, likeness”), from simul(ā) + -crum (a variant of -culum, from Proto-Indo-European *-tlom, a suffix forming instrument nouns), from similis (“similar (to)”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one; together”).

Used in a sentence

  • a simulacrum of a New York studio apartment
  • [H]e crossed the haunted Almo, renowned of yore for its healing virtues, and whose stream the far-famed simulacrum, the image of Cybele,) which fell from heaven, was wont to be laved with every coming spring; […]
  • One Life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us forevermore! It were well for us to live not as fools and simulacra, but as wise and realities.

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