appear
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English apperen, aperen, borrowed from Old French aparoir (French apparoir), from Latin appāreō, from ad ("to") + pāreō ("I come forth, I become visible"), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂s-, s-present of *peh₂- ("protect").
Pronunciation Verbappear (appears, present participle appearing; simple past and past participle appeared)
- (intransitive) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
- (intransitive) To come before the public.
- A great writer appeared at that time.
- 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre ↗”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC ↗; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831 ↗, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
- Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
- (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.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 12, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC ↗:
- One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear.
- (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.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC ↗:
- Of their vain contest appeared no end.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 18, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC ↗:
- ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?
- (intransitive, copulative) To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.
- He appeared quite happy with the result.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC ↗:
- Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.
- (transitive) To bring into view.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene 1]:
- [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
- (to seem) look
- 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
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