LIKENESS


Meaning of LIKENESS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ laɪknəs ]

( likenesses)

1.

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

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

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

= similarity

N-SING : oft N to/between n

2.

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

The museum displays wax likenesses of every US president.

N-COUNT : with poss

3.

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

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

N-COUNT : usu sing , usu adj N

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Английский словарь Коллинз COBUILD для изучающих язык на продвинутом уровне.