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SEANCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does seance mean?
• SEANCE (noun)
The noun SEANCE has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: SEANCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A meeting of spiritualists
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
Context example:
the seance was held in the medium's parlor
Hypernyms ("seance" is a kind of...):
get together; meeting (a small informal social gathering)
Meronyms (parts of "seance"):
spirit rapping; table rapping; table tapping (alleged form of communication with spirits of the dead)
table lifting; table tilting; table tipping; table turning (manipulation of a table during a seance; attributed to spirits)
Context examples
The Superintendent of Schools, good old man, stopped Martin on the street and remembered him, recalling seances in his office when Martin was expelled from school for fighting.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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