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For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
Matthew Prior

Meaning of "semblance" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SEMBLANCE

From Old French, from sembler to seem, from Latin simulāre to imitate, from similis like.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SEMBLANCE

semblance  [ˈsɛmbləns] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SEMBLANCE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Semblance is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SEMBLANCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of semblance in the English dictionary

The definition of semblance in the dictionary is outward appearance, esp without any inner substance or reality. Other definition of semblance is a resemblance or copy.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SEMBLANCE


ambulance
ˈæmbjʊləns
assemblance
əˈsɛmbləns
balance
ˈbæləns
condolence
kənˈdəʊləns
dissemblance
dɪˈsɛmbləns
equivalence
ɪˈkwɪvələns
excellence
ˈɛksələns
imbalance
ɪmˈbæləns
opulence
ˈɒpjʊləns
prevalence
ˈprevələns
resemblance
rɪˈzɛmbləns
silence
ˈsaɪləns
surveillance
sɜːˈveɪləns
turbulence
ˈtɜːbjʊləns
ultraviolence
ˌʌltrəˈvaɪələns
valance
ˈvæləns
valence
ˈveɪləns
vigilance
ˈvɪdʒɪləns
violence
ˈvaɪələns
virulence
ˈvɪrʊləns

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SEMBLANCE

semaphorically
Semarang
semasiological
semasiologically
semasiologist
semasiology
sematic
sematology
semblable
semblably
semblant
semblative
semble
seme
semeiologic
semeiological
semeiologist
semeiology
semeion
semeiotic

WORDS THAT END LIKE SEMBLANCE

account balance
advance
air ambulance
at a glance
Ballance
bank balance
counterbalance
elance
freelance
glance
in the balance
lance
on balance
opening balance
parlance
strike a balance
the Balance
trial balance
unbalance
video surveillance
work/life balance

Synonyms and antonyms of semblance in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SEMBLANCE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «semblance» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of semblance

Translation of «semblance» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SEMBLANCE

Find out the translation of semblance to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of semblance from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «semblance» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

表象
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

apariencia
570 millions of speakers

English

semblance
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

झलक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مظهر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

видимость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

aparência
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আভাস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

semblant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Semblance
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Anschein
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

見せかけ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

외관
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Semblance
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

giả bộ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒத்த இயல்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आभास
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

görünüş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

parvenza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pozór
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

видимість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

aparență
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ομοιότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skyn
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skepnad
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skinn
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of semblance

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SEMBLANCE»

The term «semblance» is quite widely used and occupies the 46.714 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SEMBLANCE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «semblance» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «semblance» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about semblance

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9 QUOTES WITH «SEMBLANCE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word semblance.
1
John Henrik Clarke
Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off.
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Glenn Danzig
But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.
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William Godwin
Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.
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Ben Harper
The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.
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Melina Kanakaredes
It's a wonderful time when you sit down around the table for dinner and discuss life. No matter where you are, it gives the semblance of normalcy to my crazy world.
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Matthew Prior
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
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Friedrich Schleiermacher
Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.
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Sufjan Stevens
I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects.
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James T. Walsh
Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and it would be shortsighted to lay out a specific timetable to bring U.S. troops home prematurely before their mission is accomplished.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEMBLANCE»

Discover the use of semblance in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to semblance and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts
In Semblance and Event, Brian Massumi, drawing on the work of William James, Alfred North Whitehead, Gilles Deleuze, and others, develops the concept of "semblance" as a way to approach this question.
Brian Massumi, 2011
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The Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian ...
This book assembles a transnational archive of literary texts by Eileen Chang, Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Chang-rae Lee, Michael Ondaatje, and Jose Garcia Villa, revealing the intersections of subjectivity and representation, and ...
Christopher Lee, 2012
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The Sense of Semblance:Philosophical Analyses of Holocaust ...
"Drawing on work in contemporary analytic philosophy and Adorno's normative aesthetic theory, this book aims to show how selected Holocaust artworks in a variety of media (lyric poetry by Paul Celan, Holocaust memorials, quotational texts ...
Henry W. Pickford, 2013
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The Semblance of Subjectivity: Essays in Adorno's Aesthetic ...
This collection of essays is an importantcontribution to the discussion of Adorno's aesthetics in Anglo-American scholarship.The essays areorganized around the twin themes of semblance and subjectivity.
Tom Huhn, Lambert Zuidervaart, 1999
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Semblance and Signification
If primary and secondary modelling systems are rarely studied in tandem, it is clear from this volume that their fruitful juxtaposition yields striking insight into the cognitive concerns that pervade current semiotic research.
Pascal Michelucci, Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg, 2011
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Semblance Hypothesis of Memory
The semblance hypothesis explains how associative memory can result from the multidimensional semblance of activity from a specific set of presynaptic terminals at different orders of neurons.
Kunjumon Vadakkan, 2010
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Bits & pieces put together to present a semblance of a ...
One of the premier institutions of contemporary art in the country, the Walker Art Center also holds an important collection of over 11,000 objects from the early twentieth century to the present.
Walker Art Center, Joan Rothfuss, Elizabeth Carpenter, 2005
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Gesammelte Schriften
The significance of beautiful semblance [Schein] for traditional aesthetics is deeply rooted in the age of perception that is now nearing its end. The theory reflecting this was given its last formulation by German Idealism. But even there it had ...
Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, 2002
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Mystic masque: semblance and reality in Georges Rouault, ...
The publication of Mystic Masque, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name at Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art, will introduce a new generation to the work of a modern master.
Stephen Schloesser, McMullen Museum of Art, 2008
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The Nonlinear Differential Semblance Algorithm for Plane ...
Abstract The Nonlinear Differential Semblance Algorithm for Plane Waves in Layered Media by Dong Sun This thesis proposes an alternative approach to the output least-squares (OLS) seismic inversion for layered-media. The latter cannot  ...
Dong Sun, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SEMBLANCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term semblance is used in the context of the following news items.
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Forget any semblance of privacy
Your toaster will soon talk to your toothbrush and your bathroom scale. They will all have a direct line to your car and to the health sensors in your smartphone. «Albany Times Union, Jul 15»
2
Worn out and anxious, Greeks try to maintain a semblance of normality
ATHENS — As Greece's economic fate and continuance in the eurozone is debated in Brussels, shell-shocked Athenians, reeling from two chaotic weeks that ... «Al Jazeera America, Jul 15»
3
Semblance of stability returns to Kiwi dollar
Now, despite ructions on the world stage - China and Greece - some semblance of stability has returned to the Kiwi. Photo / File. The rout in the New Zealand ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
4
Letter: We've lost all semblance of empathy
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, ... «Asheville Citizen-Times, Jul 15»
5
A semblance of justice ends tawdry Tim Carmody affair
Tim Carmody's negotiated decision to take a major demotion — but to retain the salary, perks and pension entitlements of a Supreme Court justice — is the ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
6
A Semblance of Order
He conveyed an air of control and a semblance of order that staved off absolute panic, inadvertently giving the country his best few hours of service.” An air of ... «City Journal, Jun 15»
7
Semblance of a home
And yet, those who have been displaced by the earthquake into camps are doing everything they can to create a semblance of home living in these unfamiliar ... «E Kantipur, May 15»
8
The new Magic Mike XXL trailer appears to show some semblance
Warner Bros.' marketing department appears to have learned its lesson from the first Magic Mike movie, and is marketing the sequel, Magic Mike XXL, as the ... «A.V. Club Denver/Boulder, May 15»
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For Israeli Soldiers and Rescue Teams in Nepal, a Semblance of …
In the week following the disastrous earthquake in Nepal, the Chabad House in Kathmandu has become a “home away from home” for hundreds of soldiers from ... «Chabad.org, May 15»
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North West's 'Frozen' Suitcase Proves She Has Some Semblance Of …
North West is pretty much the best member of the Kardashian family. But if you were worried that the child, who regularly has a front row seat at the biggest ... «Huffington Post, Mar 15»

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