"séance" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈseɪˌɑns/ [US] Audio: En-us-séance.oga [US] Forms: séances [plural]
Etymology: From French séance (“sitting, session”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fr|séance||sitting, session}} French séance (“sitting, session”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} séance (plural séances)
  1. A ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits of dead people, usually led by a medium. Categories (topical): Afterlife Translations (a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits): seancë spiritizmi [feminine] (Albanian), сеанс (seans) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 降神会 (jiàngshén huì) (Chinese), seance [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), spiritismi-istunto (Finnish), séance de spiritisme [feminine] (French), Séance [feminine] (German), העלאה באוב [feminine] (Hebrew), सेआंस (seāns) (Hindi), दावत (dāvat) (Hindi), हाज़िरात (hāzirāt) (Hindi), szeánsz (Hungarian), miðilsfundur [masculine] (Icelandic), seduta spiritica [feminine] (Italian), 神降ろし (kami oroshi) (Japanese), kauwhata (Maori), seanse [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), seans [masculine] (Polish), sessão espírita [feminine] (Portuguese), сеа́нс (seáns) [masculine] (Russian), спирити́ческий сеа́нс (spiritíčeskij seáns) [masculine] (Russian), sesión espiritista [feminine] (Spanish), seans [common-gender] (Swedish), seans (Turkish), אוב (ub) (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-séance-en-noun-Ujw2qU58 Disambiguation of Afterlife: 50 47 3 Disambiguation of 'a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits': 94 6
  2. (dated) The sitting of an assembly to discuss a matter. Tags: dated Categories (topical): Afterlife, Death
    Sense id: en-séance-en-noun-a5rjtWEo Disambiguation of Afterlife: 50 47 3 Disambiguation of Death: 26 59 15 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 22 51 27 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 16 71 14 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 17 67 16 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 18 58 23
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: seance

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈseɪˌɑns/ [US] Audio: En-us-séance.oga [US] Forms: séances [present, singular, third-person], séancing [participle, present], séanced [participle, past], séanced [past]
Etymology: From French séance (“sitting, session”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fr|séance||sitting, session}} French séance (“sitting, session”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} séance (third-person singular simple present séances, present participle séancing, simple past and past participle séanced)
  1. To hold a séance (communication with spirits).
    Sense id: en-séance-en-verb-1k4wblAx
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: seance

Noun [French]

IPA: /se.ɑ̃s/ Audio: Fr-séance.ogg [France, Paris] Forms: séances [plural]
Rhymes: -ɑ̃s Etymology: From séant + -ance, possibly corresponding to Latin sedentia. Etymology templates: {{af|fr|séant|-ance}} séant + -ance, {{uder|fr|la|sedentia}} Latin sedentia Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} séance f (plural séances)
  1. session Tags: feminine Categories (topical): Parapsychology Derived forms: préséance, séance tenante

Inflected forms

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      "expansion": "séance (plural séances)",
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 231",
          "text": "[B]ut only too often séances degenerate into pure sorcery or necromancy, attracting all kinds of undeveloped and earth-bound entities.",
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        }
      ],
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        "A ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits of dead people, usually led by a medium."
      ],
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        [
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          "ceremony"
        ],
        [
          "communicate",
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        ],
        [
          "spirit",
          "spirit"
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        [
          "dead",
          "dead"
        ],
        [
          "medium",
          "medium"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The sitting of an assembly to discuss a matter."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "assembly",
          "assembly"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) The sitting of an assembly to discuss a matter."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈseɪˌɑns/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-séance.oga",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/En-us-s%C3%A9ance.oga",
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        "US"
      ],
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    }
  ],
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    {
      "word": "seance"
    }
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    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "seancë spiritizmi"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "seans",
      "sense": "a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "сеанс"
    },
    {
      "code": "zh",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "jiàngshén huì",
      "sense": "a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits",
      "word": "降神会"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "seance"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits",
      "word": "spiritismi-istunto"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "séance de spiritisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Séance"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "העלאה באוב"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "seāns",
      "sense": "a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits",
      "word": "सेआंस"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "dāvat",
      "sense": "a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits",
      "word": "दावत"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "hāzirāt",
      "sense": "a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits",
      "word": "हाज़िरात"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits",
      "word": "szeánsz"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "miðilsfundur"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "seduta spiritica"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kami oroshi",
      "sense": "a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits",
      "word": "神降ろし"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits",
      "word": "kauwhata"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "seanse"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "seans"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sessão espírita"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "seáns",
      "sense": "a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "сеа́нс"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "spiritíčeskij seáns",
      "sense": "a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "спирити́ческий сеа́нс"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sesión espiritista"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "seans"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits",
      "word": "seans"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "ub",
      "sense": "a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits",
      "word": "אוב"
    }
  ],
  "word": "séance"
}

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  "categories": [
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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from French",
    "English terms spelled with É",
    "English terms spelled with ◌́",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "English undefined derivations",
    "English verbs",
    "en:Afterlife",
    "en:Death"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "séance",
        "4": "",
        "5": "sitting, session"
      },
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      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From French séance (“sitting, session”).",
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    {
      "form": "séances",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "séancing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "séanced",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "séanced",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "séance (third-person singular simple present séances, present participle séancing, simple past and past participle séanced)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To hold a séance (communication with spirits)."
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈseɪˌɑns/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-séance.oga",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4a/En-us-s%C3%A9ance.oga/En-us-s%C3%A9ance.oga.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/En-us-s%C3%A9ance.oga",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
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    }
  ],
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    {
      "word": "seance"
    }
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}

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    {
      "word": "préséance"
    },
    {
      "word": "séance tenante"
    }
  ],
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      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "séance",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: séance",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: séance"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "de",
            "2": "Séance",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ German: Séance",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ German: Séance"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "hu",
            "2": "szeánsz",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Hungarian: szeánsz",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Hungarian: szeánsz"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nb",
            "2": "seanse",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Norwegian Bokmål: seanse",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Norwegian Bokmål: seanse"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pl",
            "2": "seans",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Polish: seans",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Polish: seans"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ru",
            "2": "сеанс",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Russian: сеанс (seans)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Russian: сеанс (seans)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "tr",
            "2": "seans",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Turkish: seans",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Turkish: seans"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "séant",
        "3": "-ance"
      },
      "expansion": "séant + -ance",
      "name": "af"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "sedentia"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin sedentia",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From séant + -ance, possibly corresponding to Latin sedentia.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "séances",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "séance f (plural séances)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "sé‧ance"
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "French 2-syllable words",
        "French countable nouns",
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French feminine nouns",
        "French lemmas",
        "French nouns",
        "French terms derived from Latin",
        "French terms suffixed with -ance",
        "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "French terms with audio links",
        "French terms with homophones",
        "French undefined derivations",
        "Rhymes:French/ɑ̃s",
        "Rhymes:French/ɑ̃s/2 syllables",
        "fr:Parapsychology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "session"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "session",
          "session"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/se.ɑ̃s/"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "séances"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɑ̃s"
    },
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      "audio": "Fr-séance.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b9/Fr-s%C3%A9ance.ogg/Fr-s%C3%A9ance.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Fr-s%C3%A9ance.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "France",
        "Paris"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (France, Paris)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "séance"
}

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