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Word entry · 8 letters

likeness

Best crossword clue

"Portrait resemblance"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈlaɪknəs/Part of speech nounSorted eeiklnssStarts with LEnds with S1 cluesCommon crossword word
1L2I3K4E5N6E7S8S

Definitions

  1. picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing

Word origin

From Middle English liknesse, from Old English līcness, ġelīcnes (“the quality of being like or equal; likeness; image; copy; pattern; example; parable”), from Proto-West Germanic *galīkanassī (“likeness”), equivalent to like + -ness.

Used in a sentence

  • I bear no likeness to my parents whatsoever.
  • A foe in the likeness of a friend
  • How he looked, the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine.

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