séance

See also: seance and Séance

English

Alternative forms

• seance

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French séance (“sitting, session”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseɪˌɑns/

Noun

séance (plural séances)

1. A ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits of dead people, usually led by a medium.
2. (dated) The sitting of an assembly to discuss a matter.

Translations

a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits

• Chinese: 降神会 (jiàngshén huì)
• Dutch: seance (nl) m or f
• Finnish: spiritismisessio
• French: séance de spiritisme (fr) f
• German: Séance (de) f
• Hebrew: העלאה באוב f
• Hungarian: szeánsz (hu)
• Icelandic: miðilsfundur m
• Italian: seduta spiritica f
• Japanese: 神降ろし (kami oroshi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: kauwhata
• Polish: seans (pl)
• Portuguese: sessão espírita f
• Russian: сеа́нс (ru) m (seáns), спирити́ческий сеа́нс m (spiritíčeskij seáns)
• Spanish: sesión espiritista f
• Swedish: seans (sv) c
• Turkish: seans (tr)
• Yiddish: אוב (ub)

Anagrams

• Neaces, Seneca, acenes, encase, scenae, scæne

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French

Etymology

séant +‎ -ance, possibly corresponding to (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin sedentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se.ɑ̃s/

• Audio (France, Paris):

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• Homophone: séances
• Hyphenation: sé‧ance
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

séance f (plural séances)

1. session

Derived terms

• préséance

Further reading

• “séance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.