Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The state or quality of resembling, especially similarity in appearance or in external or superficial details. See Synonyms at likeness.
- n. Something that resembles another; a likeness or semblance.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or property of resembling or being like; likeness; similarity either of external form or of qualities.
- n. Something similar; a similitude; a point or detail of likeness; a representation; an image; semblance.
- n. Likelihood; probability.
- n. A simile.
- n. Look; regard; show of affection.
Wiktionary
- n. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.
- n. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
- n. A comparison; a simile.
- n. Probability; verisimilitude.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.
- n. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
- n. obsolete A comparison; a simile.
- n. obsolete Probability; verisimilitude.
WordNet 3.0
- n. similarity in appearance or external or superficial details
Examples
“Darwinian theory, the resemblance must have come about gradually, and in its beginnings it cannot have profited the mimic _as a resemblance_.”
“Now the nature of the material evidence is plainly this, that the resemblance of camels to deer, oxen, etc., in chewing the cud, justifies us in believing that they have a further resemblance in feeding on herbs; in other words, we assume that _resemblance is a ground of inference_.”
“But a word resemblance is still broken if any one letter in the word differs.”
“But the resemblance is there, you have to admit that.”
“Theodore Brandeis 'roseleaf skin, and over, and above all these, weaving in and out through the whole, an expression or cast -- a vague, undefinable thing which we call a resemblance -- that could only have come from the woman of the picture, Theodore Brandeis' wife, Olga.”
“You know, Lucy, you have often told me I should certainly have been in love with you if I had not been your brother: this resemblance is a proof you were right.”
“And even there the resemblance is only slight, since a trustee in the U.S. actually does control the trust.”
“I am a woman of both “black” (Ugandan) and “white” (Norwegian) heritage, but my physical resemblance is refered to as black.”
“This resemblance is found in the Missal of St. Pius V, as in all of the missals that came before it, and in the medieval usages of the great cathedrals and religious orders.”
“The resemblance is undeniable, from the massive arch to the carved pillars," Shebar writes.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘resemblance’.
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EN - eesily missspellable wirds
accessible, accommodate, achievement, acquaintance, address, advertisement, alleged, athletics, attendance, auxiliary, believe, challenge and 118 more...
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SCIE - statistics
a priori probability, Abbe-Helmert crit..., absolute error, absolutely unbias..., accuracy, ACF, affinity, AIC, algorithm, allometry, alphabet, anomic and 4171 more...
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Wordplay & Pun
wordplay, pound, conceit, clinch, joke, quibble, equivoque, double-entendre, quillet, calembour, carriwitchet, paranomasia and 90 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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2007bee-r02
2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee Round 2
query, tendency, danceable, parachute, malignant, brutal, humanely, lyrically, deductible, shindig, gravel, embroidered and 274 more...
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descriptors - nouns
libertine, equanimity, craven, cavalier, martinet, popinjay, tremble, flinch, malice, drudgery, dystopia, morbidity and 37 more...
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Bear With Me
Phrases including things that bear or are borne (with the meaning "to support," "to hold," or "to carry").
witness, grudge, burden, repeating, weight, strain, child, fruit, examination, blame, suffering, cross and 50 more...
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ance in my pance
words i inexplicably have a fondness for that have the suffix 'ance'
dissonance, resemblance, resonance, defiance, sibilance, variance
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