Resemble
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ɹɪˈzɛmb(ə)l/
Origin
From Anglo-Norman, Middle French resembler, from re- + sembler ("to seem").
Full definition of resemble
Verb
- (transitive) To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
- ShakespeareWe will resemble you in that.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, The China Governess Chapter Foreword, He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. .But what you've just described does resemble a person of that kind.
- The twins resemble each other.
- (transitive, now rare, archaic) To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:And th'other all yclad in garments light,
Discolour'd like to womanish disguise,
He did resemble to his Ladie bright .... - (obsolete, transitive) To counterfeit; to imitate.
- HollandThey can so well resemble man's speech.
- (obsolete, transitive) To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.