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.

Related terms

• semantics
• semiotics

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.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, I.46:

     I bear Azure seme of trefoiles, a Lions Paw in fæce, Or, armed Gules.

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.

Antonyms

• uke

Anagrams

• Esme, Esmé
• seem
• smee

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

Declension