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alter ego

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alter ego
n.
1. Another side of oneself; a second self.
2. An intimate friend or a constant companion.
[Latin : alter, other + ego, I, self.]
alter ego
Noun
1. a hidden side to one's personality
2. a very close friend [Latin: other self]
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Noun1.alter ego - a very close and trusted friend who seems almost a part of yourself
friend - a person you know well and regard with affection and trust; "he was my best friend at the university"
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Ferguson had a friend--not another self, indeed, an alter ego, for friendship could not exist between two beings exactly alike.
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules View in context
And, as John Barleycorn heated his way into my brain, thawing my reticence, melting my modesty, talking through me and with me and as me, my adopted twin brother and alter ego, I, too, raised my voice to show myself a man and an adventurer, and bragged in detail and at length of how I had crossed San Francisco Bay in my open skiff in a roaring southwester when even the schooner sailors doubted my exploit.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
It comes over me that I had then a strange ALTER EGO deep down somewhere within me, as the full-blown flower is in the small tight bud, and that I just took the course, I just transferred him to the climate, that blighted him for once and for ever.
The Jolly Corner by James, Henry View in context
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