Meaning

3 senses
  1. An individual's alternate personality or persona; another self.

    Clark Kent's coworkers finally discovered his alter ego, Superman.

    Alter Ego, anderes Ich

    а́льтер э́гоálʹtɛr égo, друго́е яdrugóje ja

  2. A very close and intimate friend.

    a very close and trusted friend who seems almost a part of yourself

  3. A corporation used by a person to conduct personal business in an attempt to shield himself or herself from personal liability, and which a court may penetrate by "piercing the corporate veil" to impose liability on the person when they commit fraud or injustice.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. A friend is an alter ego.

  2. Tom is my alter ego.

    deTom ist mein Alter Ego. — manese

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  3. I asked an escobar to go get me something; he brought me his alter ego.

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  4. Sami, a transsexual, created an alter ego he named Layla.

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  5. That's Tom's alter ego.

    deDas ist das zweite Ich von Tom. — list

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
alternate personality or persona:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
alternate personality or persona:

Origin

From Latin alter ego (literally “other me”).

From Latin alter ego (literally “other me”).

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Forms

plural: alter egos
Singularalter ego
Pluralalter egos

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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