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When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.
Camille Pissarro

Meaning of "counterpart" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COUNTERPART

counterpart  [ˈkaʊntəˌpɑːt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COUNTERPART

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Counterpart is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COUNTERPART MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of counterpart in the English dictionary

The first definition of counterpart in the dictionary is a person or thing identical to or closely resembling another. Other definition of counterpart is one of two parts that complement or correspond to each other. Counterpart is also a person acting opposite another in a play.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COUNTERPART


apart
əˈpɑːt
Bonaparte
ˈbəʊnəˌpɑːt
champart
ˈtʃæmpɑːt
compart
kəmˈpɑːt
depart
dɪˈpɑːt
dispart
dɪsˈpɑːt
forepart
ˈfɔːˌpɑːt
impart
ɪmˈpɑːt
mouthpart
ˈmaʊθˌpɑːt
multipart
ˈmʌltɪˌpɑːt
outpart
ˈaʊtˌpɑːt
overpart
ˌəʊvəˈpɑːt
part
pɑːt
Quelpart
ˈkwɛlˌpɑːt
rampart
ˈræmpɑːt
spart
spɑːt
subpart
ˈsʌbˌpɑːt
tripart
ˈtraɪˌpɑːt
underpart
ˈʌndəˌpɑːt
upperpart
ˈʌpərˌpɑːt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COUNTERPART

counterpace
counterpane
counterparties
counterparty
counterparty risk
counterpeise
counterpetition
counterpicket
counterplan
counterplay
counterplayer
counterplea
counterplead
counterplot
counterplotted
counterplotting
counterploy
counterpoint
counterpoise
counterpoise bridge

WORDS THAT END LIKE COUNTERPART

bit part
body part
car part
fall apart
for the most part
four-part
imaginary part
in part
moving part
name part
play a part
poles apart
real part
replacement part
spare part
star part
take apart
take in good part
tell apart
walk-on part

Synonyms and antonyms of counterpart in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «COUNTERPART»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «counterpart» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of counterpart

Translation of «counterpart» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COUNTERPART

Find out the translation of counterpart to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of counterpart from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «counterpart» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

对应的人或物
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

homólogo
570 millions of speakers

English

counterpart
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

समकक्ष
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نظيره
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

коллега
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

homólogo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রতিরুপ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

homologue
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Rakan sejawatannya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Gegenüber
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

同等の人{or}同等のもの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

상대되는 것
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pasangan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đối tác
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சகா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

समकक्ष
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

karşılık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

omologo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

odpowiednikiem
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

колега
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

omologul
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ομόλογό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

eweknie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

motsvarighet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

motstykke
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of counterpart

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COUNTERPART»

The term «counterpart» is very widely used and occupies the 21.681 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COUNTERPART» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «counterpart» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «counterpart» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about counterpart

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8 QUOTES WITH «COUNTERPART»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word counterpart.
1
Bobby Bonilla
We've got a lot of pressure going. This is for my Latin counterpart.
2
Viet D. Dinh
Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.
3
Michael Feldman
The average married man lives two thousand and five days longer than his single counterpart, albeit with less reason.
4
John T. Flynn
This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning.
5
Jason McCoy
Grade 9: I was too small for football, too shy for drama class, but I did have a passion for music. And so, with a mouth full of braces (and a glorious mullet), I accepted that the trombone would be a fantastic scholastic counterpart to my extracurricular loves: country music, and the guitar.
6
Dorian Missick
As a black actor, you always have the feeling that there's not as much work out there as for a white counterpart, but is America after all; you have to play ball if you're going to play ball.
7
Camille Pissarro
When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.
8
Paul Watzlawick
The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COUNTERPART»

Discover the use of counterpart in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to counterpart and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Counterpart
Poetry. Elizabeth Robinson's new book investigates the uncanny doubleness inherent in each self, the hells unacknowledged in self-examination.
Elizabeth Robinson, 2012
2
Southern Counterpart to Lewis & Clark: The Freeman & Custis ...
Stopped by a Spanish army in what is today extreme southern Oklahoma, they did not complete their mission. President Jefferson minimized their failure by focusing instead on the success of their northern counterparts Lewis and Clark.
Dan Louie Flores, 2002
3
Classical Potential Theory and Its Probabilistic Counterpart
9. The. Parabolic-Fine. Topology. It will be convenient to introduce the fine topology in the parabolic context at a much earlier stage than in the classical context. In the following discussion otherwise unspecified topological concepts refer to the ...
Joseph L. Doob, 2001
4
Counterpart: A South Vietnamese Naval Officer's War
A South Vietnamese Naval Officer's War Kiem Do, Julie Kane. CHAPTER 8 Diem Lauds U.S. Aid in Talk to Congress New York Times, 10 May 1957 Like all actors and gamblers, Le Quang My had a dream: that one day the navy would be as ...
Kiem Do, Julie Kane, 1998
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Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture ...
This is a rare variant of the more common subjunctive negation jm.f sÿm (§ 19.11. 2). It is found in older Middle Egyptian texts, as a survival from Old Egyptian. 5) jwt The negative wordjwt is the noun-clause counterpart of the negative particle nj.
James P. Allen, 2010
6
Hester's Counterpart a Story of Boarding School Life
Debby Alden, to use her own adjective in regard to herself, was not -slack.- To this her friends added another term. Debby was -set.- There could be no doubt of that.
Jean K. (Jean Katherine) Baird, 2010
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Credit Risk Management: Basic Concepts: Financial Risk ...
4.4.3.3 Counterpart credit risk Privately negotiated financial contracts are subject to counterpart credit risk: the counterpart of the contract may default prior to the expiration date. Examples of such contracts are over-the-counter (OTC) ...
Tony Van Gestel, Bart Baesens, 2008
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Philosophical Papers : Volume I
the former, we get the personal counterpart relation. Only a person, or something very like a person, can resemble a person in respect of personhood and personal traits enough to be his personal counterpart. But if we assign great weight to ...
David Lewis Professor of Philosophy Princeton University, 1983
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What Are We? : A Study in Personal Ontology: A Study in ...
''counterpart'' of it at a world to be F at that world.5 A counterpart of you at a world is a thing at that world that is at least as much like you as anything else at that world, and is enough like you that we are willing to treat it as a modal stand-in for  ...
Eric T. Olson Professor in Philosophy University of Sheffield, 2007
10
Essays on Aristotle's Rhetoric
Jacques Brunschwig The most famous sentence in Aristotle's Rhetoric is quite probably the first one, namely "Rhetoric is a counterpart (antistrophos) to dialectic ." After delivering this sentence (likely to have shattered the walls of Plato's ...
Amélie Rorty, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COUNTERPART»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term counterpart is used in the context of the following news items.
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Rajnath meets South African counterpart in Delhi
Whatsapp. Comment. New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh met his South African counterpart Malusi Gigaba here on Wednesday. «Zee News, Jul 15»
2
The Ashes: England skipper Alastair Cook and Australia counterpart
Alastair Cook and Michael Clarke were almost left without an urn to pose with at their pre-Ashes photocall after the ECB failed to ask the MCC ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
3
PM, Samoan counterpart sign double-tax agreement on day of …
Prime Minister John Key and his Samoan counterpart have signed a double-tax agreement in Samoa. The announcement comes on the day of ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
4
Bulgaria President met with Ukrainian counterpart (ROUNDUP)
Kiev. Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev arrived on an official two-day visit to Kiev on Tuesday. The Bulgarian Head of State is in Ukraine at ... «Focus News, Jul 15»
5
PM Modi, Kazakh counterpart launch exploratory drilling of Satpayev …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Kazakh counterpart Karim Massimov have jointly launched the first exploratory drilling of the Satpayev ... «Web India, Jul 15»
6
PM Modi invites Mauritius counterpart Anerood Jugnauth to attend …
New Delhi, July 7 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi has prolonged invitation to his Mauritius counterpart, Anerood Jugnauth to attend the ... «Bharat Press, Jul 15»
7
Chinese vice president meets Zimbabwean counterpart
BEIJING, July 8 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao met with his Zimbabwean counterpart Emmerson Mnangagwa in Beijing on ... «GlobalPost, Jul 15»
8
PM Modi meets his Kazakh counterpart, holds talks on bilateral ties
Astana: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday held talks with his Kazakhstan counterpart Karim Massimov after his arrival here on ... «Zee News, Jul 15»
9
PM Modi meets Uzbek counterpart Shavkat Miromonovich
Tashkent (Uzbekistan), July 6 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday met his Uzbek counterpart Shavkat Miromonovich Mirziyoyev ... «ANINEWS, Jul 15»
10
Armenian PM to meet Russian counterpart in Moscow
YEREVAN, JULY 6, ARMENPRESS: The Prime Ministers of the Republic of Armenia and the Russian Federation, Hovik Abrahamyan and Dmitry Medvedev, will ... «Armenpress.am, Jul 15»

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