LIKENESS


Meaning of LIKENESS in English

(~es)

1.

If two things or people have a ~ to each other, they are similar to each other.

These myths have a startling ~ to one another...

There might be a ~ between their features, but their eyes were totally dissimilar.

= similarity

N-SING: oft N to/between n

2.

A ~ of someone is a picture or sculpture of them.

The museum displays wax ~es of every US president.

N-COUNT: with poss

3.

If you say that a picture of someone is a good ~, you mean that it looks just like them.

She says the artist’s impression is an excellent ~ of her abductor.

N-COUNT: usu sing, usu adj N

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