• Seme

    Origin 1

    Borrowing from grc σῆμα.

    Full definition of seme

    Noun

    seme

    (plural semes or semata)
    1. (linguistics, semiotics) Anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation or sign.

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    Origin 2

    Verb

    1. Obsolete form of seem

    Origin 3

    Noun

    1. Obsolete form of seam

    Origin 4

    Adjective

    1. Obsolete form of semée

    Origin 5

    Borrowing from ja 攻める.

    Noun

    seme

    (plural semes or seme)
    1. (Japanese fiction) An active or dominant male character in a same-sex relationship; a top.
      • 2008, Dru Pagliassotti, "Better Than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction", in Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre (eds. Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry & Dru Pagliassotti), McFarland & Company (2008), ISBN 9780786441952, page 73:BL manga readers chose intelligence, protectiveness, and beauty/handsomeness as the top three most important traits in a seme
      • 2010, Pentabu, My Girlfriend's a Geek, Volume 1, Yen Press (2012), ISBN 9780316221801, unnumbered page:Sebas has always been the seme.
      • 2011, Robin E. Brenner & Snow Wildsmith, "Love through a DIfferent Lens: Japanese Homoerotic Manga through the Eyes of American Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Other Sexualities Readers", in Mangatopia: Essays on Manga and Anime in the Modern World (eds. Timothy Perper & Martha Cornog), Libraries Unlimited (2011), ISBN 9781591589099, page 97:The seme is larger, stronger, and more traditionally masculine, while the uke is smaller, weaker, and more feminine.

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