semblance

English

Alternative forms

• semblaunce

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈsɛm.bləns/, X-SAMPA: /"sEm.bl@ns/

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Noun

semblance (plural semblances)

1. likeness, similarity; the quality of being similar.
2. Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form.

Translations

likeness, similarity

• Dutch: gelijkheid (nl)
• Finnish: ulkonäkö (fi)
• Hebrew: דמיון (he) (dimyón) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: likhet (nb) m

• Portuguese: semelhança (pt) f
• Russian: сходство (ru) n (sxodstvo), подобие (ru) n (podobije)
• Scottish Gaelic: coltas (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: sličnost (sh), izgled (sh)
• Swedish: likhet (sv) c

External links

• semblance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• semblance in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911