"make an appearance" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-make an appearance.ogg [Australia] Forms: makes an appearance [present, singular, third-person], making an appearance [participle, present], made an appearance [participle, past], made an appearance [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|make<,,made> an appearance}} make an appearance (third-person singular simple present makes an appearance, present participle making an appearance, simple past and past participle made an appearance)
  1. (idiomatic) To turn up to an event for a brief moment. Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: put in an appearance Translations (turn up to an event): 露面 (lòumiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 出場 (Chinese Mandarin), 出场 (chūchǎng) (Chinese Mandarin), 現身 (Chinese Mandarin), 现身 (xiànshēn) (Chinese Mandarin), 出席 (chūxí) (Chinese Mandarin), näyttäytyä (Finnish), faire acte de présence (French), hacer acto de presencia (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-make_an_appearance-en-verb-UVxH0wEB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for make an appearance meaning in English (2.5kB)

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      "word": "露面"
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      "sense": "turn up to an event",
      "word": "näyttäytyä"
    },
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      "sense": "turn up to an event",
      "word": "faire acte de présence"
    },
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      "sense": "turn up to an event",
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