resemblancere‧sem‧blance /rɪˈzembləns/ ●○○ noun [countable, uncountable] 
The resemblance between Susan and her sister was remarkable.bear a (close/striking/uncanny etc) resemblance to somebody/something (=look like) Tina bears a striking resemblance to her mother.bear little/no resemblance to somebody/something What happens in the film bears little resemblance to what actually happened.COLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUNS + resemblancea close resemblance· The vase bore a close resemblance to one owned by my mother.a strong resemblance· This slender, feathery herb has a strong resemblance to fennel.a striking resemblance (=very strong and noticeable)· There's a striking resemblance between the two boys.a remarkable resemblance (=unusual or surprising)· Everyone notices the remarkable resemblance between Mathilda and Anne.an uncanny resemblance (=noticeable and difficult to explain)· I'd always thought that Jo and Freddie had an uncanny resemblance.a slight/faint resemblance (=not strong)· Don't you think she has a slight resemblance to that blonde singer in Abba?a passing resemblance (=slight)· There was no more than a passing resemblance between the sisters.a superficial resemblance (=when something seems to look like something else, but is in fact quite different)· Its spines give it a superficial resemblance to a hedgehog.somebody's physical resemblance to somebody· People often commented on his physical resemblance to his father.a family resemblance (=between members of the same family)· I couldn't detect any family resemblance.verbsbear/have a resemblance to somebody/something· People said he bore a striking resemblance to the president.bear little/no resemblance to somebody/something· He bore little resemblance to the photograph in the newspaper.phrasethere the resemblance ends (=they are not similar in any other way)· They are both strong-minded women, but there the resemblance ends.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Although the fish have little external resemblance to each other, skeletally they are quite similar.
- The Japanese maple leaf bears a striking resemblance to a marijuana leaf.
- When he met Francesca's aunt he was instantly struck by the family resemblance.
- When you look at this painting and the one by Rembrandt, there is certainly a resemblance.
- He was dressed in the garb of a Catholic priest and he bore an uncanny resemblance to the now legendary Spencer Tracy.
- How I hated these portraits, the photographs, the resemblances!
- In its structure and methods, the program bears a strong and not accidental resemblance to the United States Peace Corps.
- The policies of central banks in the post-cold war years bear an uncanny resemblance to those of the 1920s.
- The Soviet ambassador to the United Nations and other officials noted the resemblance between the two proposals.
- Unfortunately the resemblance ends there as his songs are nowhere near as good as the master's.
Longman Language Activatorthe quality of being similar
: similarity between · The author notes the similarity between Western and Chinese principles and sees them as having a common basis in science.similarity with/to · We were able to tell the date of the statue because of its similarity with other statues of that period.the similarity of something (to something) · For generations, scientists and science-fiction writers talked about the similarity of Mars to Earth.
a similarity in appearance: · When you look at this painting and the one by Rembrandt, there is certainly a resemblance.resemblance to: · Although the fish have little external resemblance to each other, skeletally they are quite similar.family resemblance (=a resemblance between members of the same family): · When he met Francesca's aunt he was instantly struck by the family resemblance.striking resemblance (=extremely strong resemblance): · The Japanese maple leaf bears a striking resemblance to a marijuana leaf.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUNS + resemblance Despite their superficial similarities, the two novels are, in fact, very different.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· The vase bore a close resemblance to one owned by my mother.
· This slender, feathery herb has a strong resemblance to fennel.
(=very strong and noticeable)· There's a striking resemblance between the two boys.
(=unusual or surprising)· Everyone notices the remarkable resemblance between Mathilda and Anne.
(=noticeable and difficult to explain)· I'd always thought that Jo and Freddie had an uncanny resemblance.
(=not strong)· Don't you think she has a slight resemblance to that blonde singer in Abba?
(=slight)· There was no more than a passing resemblance between the sisters.
(=when something seems to look like something else, but is in fact quite different)· Its spines give it a superficial resemblance to a hedgehog.
· People often commented on his physical resemblance to his father.
(=between members of the same family)· I couldn't detect any family resemblance.
verbs· People said he bore a striking resemblance to the president.
· He bore little resemblance to the photograph in the newspaper.
phrase (=they are not similar in any other way)· They are both strong-minded women, but there the resemblance ends.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES (=when members of the same family look like each other)· There's a strong family resemblance between all the sisters.
Despite their superficial similarities, the two novels are, in fact, very different.· Indeed, the Bate Collection's instrument displays an astonishingly close resemblance to it.· Typically, hardly anyone noticed: but then no one ever watched Crossroads for its close resemblance to real life.
· For instance, Matisse and Picasso's nudes often bear little resemblance to the sitter.· By age 7, there is little resemblance.· But such autopsies, like war games, often bear little resemblance to actual war.· This number bore little resemblance to what we actually had in the field.· She bore little resemblance to the fashionable woman she had been just a few weeks ago.· A florid, solid woman, Zaiga bore little resemblance to the lithe, romantic girl her parents had lost.· By age 7, there is little resemblance. not yet fully logical; it is prelogical.
· And Charlie, as her lover, bears more than a passing resemblance to yesterday's hero, James Dean.
· For apart from being equipped with eyes, head and body, dolphins and whales bear little outward physical resemblance to ourselves.· It came to him that Smitty, in some respects, bore a physical resemblance to Ken Grimes.· Huxley's Man's Place in Nature of 1863 had stressed the physical resemblances between humans and apes.· References to Charles's physical resemblance to his grandfather and namesake can be taken seriously.· This particular inheritance was as striking as his physical resemblance to Tace.· The physical resemblance had struck him at once.
· It bears a remarkable resemblance to the kind of natural time machine postulated by Frank Tipler, of the University of Texas.· The experiences were interpreted quite differently, even though they produced remarkable resemblances in character.
· And he was helped by the fact that he bears a slight resemblance to the blond singer in Abba, too.
· Such labels bear a striking resemblance to advertising bill boards.· Although in profile and painted, rather than in relief, it bears a striking resemblance to the Alletio sherd from Corbridge.· They bear a striking resemblance to Koquillion.· And yet this type of ambiguity bears a striking resemblance to the scope ambiguities described above.· He was always impressed by the striking resemblance between his Uncle Julian and his father.· Chester's Gateway Theatre is looking for a mild-mannered all round good-egg who bears a striking resemblance to the former Everton striker.· Jane Russell bore a striking resemblance to Sweetheart.· The Babylonian literature, however, affords some striking resemblances.
· She bore a very strong resemblance to Vera Norman!· The wart itself bears a strong resemblance to the creature as a whole except just at the point of attachment.· In both outward profile and interior decor the yacht bears a very strong resemblance to her smaller sister.· He would have recognized her from her strong resemblance to her brother, although she looked the elder by some years.· It would account for the strong resemblance.· Fewer than 50 are used outside advertising - and most of these bear strong resemblances to each other.· Listening circles were set up which bear a strong resemblance to those used for today's Open University programmes.· Wager and co-workers were struck by the strong resemblance of layered igneous rocks in the Skaergaard intrusion to clastic sedimentary rocks.
· Genesis 1 has often been compared with the Babylonian account of creation to which it bears a superficial resemblance.· But such arrangements bear only a superficial resemblance to classic design.· The administration of Ponthieu bore some superficial resemblances to that of Aquitaine.
· He was dressed in the garb of a Catholic priest and he bore an uncanny resemblance to the now legendary Spencer Tracy.· The rumors bore an uncanny resemblance to whatever people feared most.· One of the inn's habitués, a commercial traveller named Thomas Paufer, bore an uncanny resemblance to Johnson.· Stack saw an uncanny resemblance to his fictional Josh.· In the multi-tracked recording Mr Jarvis plays 99 roles, many of which bear an uncanny resemblance to well-known actors.· The policies of central banks in the post-cold war years bear an uncanny resemblance to those of the 1920s.· It was a face in fact which bore an uncanny resemblance to a young Jack Palance.· There is an uncanny resemblance between this reasoning and that which had earlier led John Dalton to an atomic theory of chemistry.
NOUN· Their expressions were drained of personality which gave them the family resemblance possessed by a flock of sheep.· Whether or not these family resemblances are accurately identified, this kind of inheritance is now firmly established by experience and science.· A curious family resemblance, a hundred years apart.· All bore a distinct snub-nosed family resemblance to one another.· All four looked white different, yet slightly the same, like distant relatives with an underlying family resemblance.· Even the F40 shows a distinct family resemblance, although the lines were sharpened and simplified.· A few family resemblances were put forward, but it was all guesswork.· The Rover 800-series, to which the new 200 bears a strong family resemblance, was the first.
VERB· To some - notably the three Oz editors - it bore an irresistible resemblance to a urinal.· The rumors bore an uncanny resemblance to whatever people feared most.· It therefore bears scant resemblance to human relationships as we know them.· But such autopsies, like war games, often bear little resemblance to actual war.· The oldest Tertiary rocks contained archaic mammals that bore no resemblance to the living families within the class.· The wart itself bears a strong resemblance to the creature as a whole except just at the point of attachment.· He was dressed in the garb of a Catholic priest and he bore an uncanny resemblance to the now legendary Spencer Tracy.· These artificial neurons bear only a modest resemblance to the real things.
· To some - notably the three Oz editors - it bore an irresistible resemblance to a urinal.· The rumors bore an uncanny resemblance to whatever people feared most.· The chicken in the biryani bore a worrying anatomical resemblance to cat.· This number bore little resemblance to what we actually had in the field.· It bore a marked resemblance to something that had already been eaten once before.· It came to him that Smitty, in some respects, bore a physical resemblance to Ken Grimes.· For Blanche the atmosphere bore no resemblance to the glamorous, fun-filled evening promised in the advertisements.· Citations commonly bore little resemblance to events.
· He bore more than a passing resemblance to Horace Greeley.
· This particular inheritance was as striking as his physical resemblance to Tace.· Wager and co-workers were struck by the strong resemblance of layered igneous rocks in the Skaergaard intrusion to clastic sedimentary rocks.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
if there is a resemblance between two people or things, they are similar, especially in the way they lookresemblance between- Bellow supported Roth's early work, and Roth's work was to bear a resemblance to Bellow's.
- The medical model is explicit: Teaching bears a resemblance to the practice of medicine.
The resemblance between Susan and her sister was remarkable.bear a (close/striking/uncanny etc) resemblance to somebody/something (=look like) Tina bears a striking resemblance to her mother.bear little/no resemblance to somebody/something What happens in the film bears little resemblance to what actually happened.COLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUNS + resemblancea close resemblance· The vase bore a close resemblance to one owned by my mother.a strong resemblance· This slender, feathery herb has a strong resemblance to fennel.a striking resemblance (=very strong and noticeable)· There's a striking resemblance between the two boys.a remarkable resemblance (=unusual or surprising)· Everyone notices the remarkable resemblance between Mathilda and Anne.an uncanny resemblance (=noticeable and difficult to explain)· I'd always thought that Jo and Freddie had an uncanny resemblance.a slight/faint resemblance (=not strong)· Don't you think she has a slight resemblance to that blonde singer in Abba?a passing resemblance (=slight)· There was no more than a passing resemblance between the sisters.a superficial resemblance (=when something seems to look like something else, but is in fact quite different)· Its spines give it a superficial resemblance to a hedgehog.somebody's physical resemblance to somebody· People often commented on his physical resemblance to his father.a family resemblance (=between members of the same family)· I couldn't detect any family resemblance.verbsbear/have a resemblance to somebody/something· People said he bore a striking resemblance to the president.bear little/no resemblance to somebody/something· He bore little resemblance to the photograph in the newspaper.phrasethere the resemblance ends (=they are not similar in any other way)· They are both strong-minded women, but there the resemblance ends.