APPEAR • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Appear

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/əpˈɪr/ Listen

verb

Appear v. i. (past & past part. appeared; pres. part. appearing)

To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible. "And God... said, Let... the dry land appear."

To come before the public; as, a great writer appeared at that time.

To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried. "We must all appear before the judgment seat." "One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear."

To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest. "It doth not yet appear what we shall be." "Of their vain contest appeared no end."

To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look. "They disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast."

Synonyms: To seem; look. See Seem.

noun

Appear n. Appearance. (Obs.)

See images of 'Appear'

Etymology of 'Appear'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Appear" Quotes from Famous Books

... your reluctance to appear at West Lynne," cried Mr. Meredith; "the scene, unless I mistake, of that notorious affair of yours. But private feelings must give way to public interests, and the best thing you can do is to start. ...

— East Lynne • Mrs. Henry Wood

... she said, "and a man may change his mind, and that may be fate—or a woman's whim." She bowed, turned away, and went below, evidently disliking the reception she had had, and anxious to escape inquiries and congratulations. Nor did she appear again until the 'Fulvia' got under way about six o'clock in the evening. As we moved out of the harbour we passed close to the 'Porcupine' and saw its officers grouped on the deck, waving adieus to some one on our deck, whom I guessed, of course, to ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... little play. My paternal grandmother, a straight-backed, severe looking old lady, was then visiting us. How my mother managed it I don't know, but Grandma, who abhorred theatricals, was soon reading 'Villikens' for us to practice, and she even consented to appear as one of Bluebeard's departed wives. A sheet was hung up to represent a wall; the wives stood behind it and put their heads through holes that had been cut for the purpose; their hair was pulled up and tacked to imaginary ...

— The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson • Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

... and she did not see him. He came neither to the floor of the Senate within her experience of it, nor to the gallery. Nor did he appear to care for Society. Few of the Senators did, for that matter. They did not mind dining out, as they had to dine somewhere, and an agreeable and possibly handsome partner would give zest to any meal; but they were dragged to receptions and escaped as soon ...

— Senator North • Gertrude Atherton

... date—had been promptly forbidden; and the late Mr. Shirley Brooks stated that a project of dramatising Mr. Disraeli's novel of "Coningsby" had also, in regard to its political bearing, been interdicted by the Chamberlain. Few other essays in this direction appear worth noting, until we come to a few seasons back, when certain members of the administration were caricatured upon the stage of the Court Theatre, after a fashion that speedily brought down the rebuke of the Chamberlain, ...

— A Book of the Play - Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character • Dutton Cook

More quotes...