appear
/əˈpɪɹ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.85 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
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.
Intransitive verb
verb
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.
Intransitive verb
Example Sentences
- "And God[…]said, Let[…]the dry land appear."
- "There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity, […] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton, the quark and the Higgs boson."
- "A great writer appeared at that time."
- "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."
- "We must all appear before the judgment seat."
- "One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear."
Etymology
From Middle English apperen, aperen, borrowed from Old French aparoir (French apparoir), from Latin appāreō (“to appear”), from ad (“to”) + pāreō (“to come forth, to become visible”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-s- (“watch, see”), s-present of *peh₂- (“protect”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈpɪɹ/
- British English: /əˈpɪə/
Usage
Inflected Forms
appears (present, singular)
appearing (participle, present)
appeared (participle, past)
appeared (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
appeared (first person, past)
appearest (archaic, present)
appeared (past, second person)
appearedst (archaic, past)
appeareth (archaic, present)
appeared (past, singular)