carbon copy

noun

1

: a copy made by carbon paper

2

: duplicate

is a carbon copy of his father

Synonyms

• alter ego
• carbon
• clone
• counterpart
• doppelgänger
• doppelganger
• double
• duplicate
• duplication
• facsimile
• fetch
• image
• likeness
• look-alike
• match
• mirror image
• picture
• replica
• ringer
• spit
• spitting image
• twin

Examples of carbon copy in a Sentence

I'll need a carbon copy of that receipt.

She's a carbon copy of her mother.

Recent Examples on the Web

Possible X factors Of course, the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections are not carbon copies of each other. —Dorian Rhea Debussy, The Conversation, 28 Oct. 2024

But your new character, Gabby, is not just a carbon copy of Barbra Jean, right? —Josef Adalian, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024

The wheel route touchdown Justin Herbert threw to running back Kimani Vidal in the first half looked like a carbon copy of the play Seattle hit for a touchdown in Week 1. —Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 14 Oct. 2024

Projects to resurrect animals that have gone extinct more recently — the mammoth, dodo and Tasmanian tiger — are reaching an inflection point, although the goal is to create a hybrid approximation of those creatures, not carbon copies. —Katie Hunt, CNN, 5 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1876, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

carbon copy

noun

1

: a copy made with carbon paper

2

: duplicate entry 2