likeness
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
The state or quality of being like or alike.
I bear no likeness to my parents whatsoever.
Đồng nghĩa: similitude, resemblance, similarity
- 2.
Appearance or form; guise.
A foe in the likeness of a friend
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
- 3.
That which closely resembles; a portrait.
How he looked, the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(archaic, transitive)To depict.
I have this morning received the photographs of my two boys. The eldest is very well likenessed: the other, perhaps, not so well.
Every member of the family [of General Grant] is as faithfully likenessed as the photographs, which were given to the artist from the hands of the General himself, have power to express.
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From Middle English liknesse, from Old English līcness, ġelīcnes, from *galīkanassī (likeness), equivalent to like + -ness.