copy

Meanings

Noun

• The result of copying; an identical duplicate of an original.
• An imitation, sometimes of inferior quality.
• The text that is to be typeset.
• The output of copywriters, who are employed to write material which encourages consumers to buy goods or services.
• The text of newspaper articles.
• A school work pad.
• A printed edition of a book or magazine.
• Writing paper of a particular size, called also bastard.
• That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example.
• An abundance or plenty of anything.
• copyhold; tenure; lease
• (genetics) The result of gene or chromosomal duplication.

Verb

• To produce an object identical to a given object.
• To give or transmit a copy to (a person).
• To place a copy of an object in memory for later use.
• To imitate.
• To receive a transmission successfully.

Related

Similar words

• duplicate
• facsimile
• image
• likeness
• reduplication
• replica
• replication
• reproduction
• simulacrum
• fake
• forgery
• phony
• sham

Opposite words

• original

Narrower meaning words

• advance copy
• backup copy
• carbon copy
• certified copy
• clean copy
• conformed copy
• courtesy copy
• deep copy
• duplicate copy
• fair copy
• hard copy
• image copy
• master copy
• microcopy
• office copy
• photocopy
• presentation copy
• promotional copy
• reading copy
• review copy
• scaled copy
• shallow copy
• soft copy
• top copy
• xerox copy

Origin

• From Middle English copy, copie, from Old French copie ("abundance, plenty; transcript, copy"), from Medieval Latin copia ("reproduction, transcript"), from Latin cōpia ("plenty, abundance"), from *coopia, from co- + ops. More at opulent.