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Webster 1913 Edition


Seme


Se-mé′

,
Adj.
[F.
semé
, fr.
semer
to sow.]
(Her.)
Sprinkled or sown; – said of field, or a charge, when strewed or covered with small charges.

Definition 2024


seme

seme

See also: semé, śeme, and sème

English

Noun

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  1. (linguistics, semiotics) Anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation or sign.
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Etymology 2

Verb

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  1. Obsolete form of seem.

Etymology 3

Noun

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  1. Obsolete form of seam.

Etymology 4

Adjective

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  1. Obsolete form of semé.

Etymology 5

Borrowing from Japanese 攻める (semeru, to attack).

Noun

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  1. (Japanese fiction) An active or dominant male character in a same-sex relationship; a top.
    • 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 the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre, McFarland & Company (2008), ISBN 9780786441952, page 73:
      [] BL manga readers chose intelligence, protectiveness, and beauty/handsomeness as the top three most important traits in a seme []
    • 2010, Pentabu, My Girlfriend's a Geek, volume 1, Yen Press (2012), ISBN 9780316221801:
      Sebas has always been the seme.
    • 2011, Robin E. Brenner & Snow Wildsmith, “Love through a DIfferent Lens: Japanese Homoerotic Manga through the Eyes of American Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Other Sexualities Readers”, in Timothy Perper & Martha Cornog, editors, Mangatopia: Essays on Manga and Anime in the Modern World, Libraries Unlimited (2011), ISBN 9781591589099, page 97:
      The seme is larger, stronger, and more traditionally masculine, while the uke is smaller, weaker, and more feminine.
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Asturian

Verb

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  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of semar
  2. third-person singular present subjunctive of semar

Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈs̺e.me/

Noun

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  1. son

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