• (RP) IPA: /əˈpɪə/
• (America) IPA: /əˈpiɹ/, [əˈpʰiɹ]
• (Scotland) IPA: /əˈpiːɹ/

appear (appears, present participle appearing; past and past participle appeared)

1. (intransitive) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
   • 1611, Book of Genesis 1:9:

     And God […] said, Let […] the dry land appear.

2. (intransitive) To come before the public.

   A great writer appeared at that time.

3. (intransitive) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, etc.; to present oneself as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried.
   • 1611, Second Epistle to the Corinthians 5:10:

     We must all appear before the judgment seat.

   • 18, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 12, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify ), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323 ↗:

4. (intransitive) 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.
   • 1611, First Epistle of John 3:2:

     It doth not yet appear what we shall be.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     Of their vain contest appeared no end.

5. (intransitive, copulative) To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.

   He appeared quite happy with the result.

   • 1611, Gospel of Matthew 6:16:

     They disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast.

6. (transitive) To bring into view.
   • c. 1604: Measure for Measure by Shakespeare

     [Angelo] is yet a devil / His filth within being cast, he would appear / A pond as deep as hell.

• (to become visible) emerge; see also Thesaurus:appear
• (seem) look

• (to become visible) disappear, vanish

• appearance
• apparent

• French: apparaître, paraître
• German: erscheinen, auftauchen
• Italian: apparire
• Portuguese: aparecer, surgir
• Russian: появля́ться
• Spanish: aparecer

• French: apparaître
• German: erscheinen, auftauchen
• Portuguese: aparecer, surgir
• Russian: явля́ться
• Spanish: aparecer

• German: erscheinen, auftreten
• Portuguese: comparecer
• Russian: явля́ться
• Spanish: comparecer

• German: erscheinen, einleuchten
• Portuguese: parecer
• Russian: ви́деться
• Spanish: aparecer

• French: sembler, paraître
• German: erscheinen, aussehen
• Portuguese: parecer, aparentar, semelhar
• Russian: каза́ться
• Spanish: parecer