impression
/ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.35 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A performance metric representing an instance where a post or ad is shown once.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "His head made an impression on the pillow."
- "He tried to make a good impression on his parents."
- "Their empires, triumphs, conquests, and projects, have left little impression behind them, notwithstanding the attention they once attracted, and the violent convulsions which they caused in the state of the world."
- "The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator."
- "Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone."
- "I have the impression that he's already left for Paris."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *per-? Proto-Indo-European *pres-der. Proto-Italic *pres- Latin premō Latin imprimō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin impressiōder. Old French impressionder. English impression From Old French impression, from Latin impressio. Equivalent to impress + -ion.
Origin
- Source language: Old French