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resemblance

re·sem·blance
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [ri-zem-bluh ns]
    • /rɪˈzɛm bləns/
    • /rɪˈzem.bləns/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [ri-zem-bluh ns]
    • /rɪˈzɛm bləns/

Definitions of resemblance word

  • noun resemblance the state or fact of resembling; similarity. 1
  • noun resemblance a degree, kind, or point of likeness. 1
  • noun resemblance a likeness, appearance, or semblance of something. 1
  • noun resemblance physical likeness 1
  • noun resemblance similarity 1
  • noun resemblance physical likeness to sb else 1
See all 15 definitions of resemblance

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Origin of resemblance

First appearance:

before 1350
One of the 20% oldest English words
1350-1400; Middle English < Anglo-French, equivalent to resembl(er) to resemble + -ance -ance

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Parts of speech for Resemblance

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Resemblance

resemblance popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 78% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

resemblance usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for resemblance

noun resemblance

  • adjacency — the quality or state of being adjacent; nearness
  • affinity — If you have an affinity with someone or something, you feel that you are similar to them or that you know and understand them very well.
  • analogy — If you make or draw an analogy between two things, you show that they are similar in some way.
  • apery — imitative behaviour; mimicry
  • approximation — An approximation is a fact, object, or description which is similar to something else, but which is not exactly the same.
All 34 Synonyms of resemblance

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Related words

  • affinity

    If you have an affinity with someone or something, you feel that you are similar to them or that you know and understand them very well.

  • icon

    a picture, image, or other representation.

  • similarity

    the state of being similar; likeness; resemblance.

  • strong

    having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.

  • -esque

    indicating a specified character, manner, style, or resemblance

  • -oid

    (jargon)   (from "android") A suffix used as in mainstream English to indicate a poor imitation, a counterfeit, or some otherwise slightly bogus resemblance. Hackers will happily use it with all sorts of non-Greco/Latin stem words that wouldn't keep company with it in mainstream English. For example, "He's a nerdoid" means that he superficially resembles a nerd but can't make the grade; a "modemoid" might be a 300-baud modem (Real Modems run at 144000 or up); a "computeroid" might be any bitty box. "-oid" can also mean "resembling an android", which was once confined to science-fiction fans and hackers. It too has recently (in 1991) started to go mainstream (most notably in the term "trendoid" for victims of terminal hipness). This is probably traceable to the popularisation of the term droid in "Star Wars" and its sequels. Coinages in both forms have been common in science fiction for at least fifty years, and hackers (who are often SF fans) have probably been making "-oid" jargon for almost that long (though GLS and ESR can personally confirm only that they were already common in the mid-1970s).
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