semblable
Americannoun
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a person or thing that resembles or matches another; counterpart.
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Archaic. likeness; resemblance.
adjective
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like or similar.
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seeming or apparent.
adjective
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resembling or similar
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apparent rather than real
noun
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something that resembles another thing
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a resemblance
Other Word Forms
- semblably adverb
Etymology
Origin of semblable
1325–75; Middle English < Middle French, equivalent to sembl ( er ) to seem + -able -able. See semblance
Example Sentences
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Except for the accident of time, she could have been the author’s bustled and corseted twin or sister, “mon semblable, ma soeur.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2020
Looking forward to it, mon semblable, mon frère.
From Salon • Jul. 22, 2016
What do you know about it, mon semblable, mon frère?
From Time Magazine Archive
Of a semblable noble condition of Quintus Fabius according to Caton.
From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown
Ne fallait-il pas pour passer de la Botanique, à 50 ans, à la Zoologie, et laisser un ouvrage semblable à celui qui illustre encore le nom du Botaniste devenue Zoologiste par ordre de la Convention!
From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
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