seme
/ˈsiːm/
seme noun: anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation, sign, or symbol. Also the obsolete form of seem.
Noun (1)
- Anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation, sign, or symbol.
Noun (2)
seme (plural semes or seme)
- An active or dominant male character in a same-sex relationship; a top.
- […] BL manga readers chose intelligence, protectiveness, and beauty/handsomeness as the top three most important traits in a seme […]2008, Dru Pagliassotti, “Better Than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction”, in Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, editors, Boys' Love Manga: Essays on...
- Sebas has always been the seme.2010, Pentabu, My Girlfriend's a Geek, volume 1, Yen Press (2012), →ISBN
Also used as
seme is also the obsolete form of seem.
seme is also the obsolete form of seam.
seme is also the obsolete form of semé.
Antonyms of seme
Forms of seme
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | semes |
| plural | semata |
| plural | seme |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | semes |
| present participle | seming |
| past participle | semed |
| past | semed |
Origin of seme
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma).
Borrowed from Japanese 攻め (seme), derived from the verb 攻める (semeru, “to attack”).
Words formed from seme
Words that rhyme with seme
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- upstream
- deem
- dream
- scream
- team
- academe
- bream
- downstream
- esteem
- forebeam
- supreme
- teem
- A team
- ice cream
- under one's own steam
- abeam
- addeem
- astream
- beseem
- centime
- decime
- deme
- fleam
- inseam
- Karim
- preem
- rheme
- seem
- agleam
- breme
- buffer beam
- distream
- foredream
- haem
- heme
- Kareem
- kilim
- leam
- leme
- let off steam
- meem
- misesteem
- misseem
- neem
- on stream
- prime
- redream
- reem
Questions about seme
- What does seme mean?
- Seme means anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation, sign, or symbol.
- What part of speech is seme?
- Seme is a noun.
- How do you pronounce seme?
- Seme is pronounced /ˈsiːm/.
- What is the plural of seme?
- The plural of seme is semes.
Words near seme in the dictionary
Source and license
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