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A ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits of dead people, usually led by a medium.
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The sitting of an assembly to discuss a matter.
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Usage: dated
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To hold a séance (communication with spirits).
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Borrowed from French séance (“sitting, session”).
Across languages
Translations
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Albanian:
seancë spiritizmi
— a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits
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Bulgarian:
сеанс
(seans)
— a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits
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Chinese:
降神会
(jiàngshén huì)
— a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits
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Dutch:
seance
— a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits
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Esperanto:
spiritista seanco
— a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits
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Finnish:
spiritismi-istunto
— a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits
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French:
séance de spiritisme
— a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits
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German:
Séance
— a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits
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Hebrew:
העלאה באוב
— a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits
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Hindi:
सेआंस
(seāns)
— a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits
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Hindi:
दावत
(dāvat)
— a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits
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Hindi:
हाज़िरात
(hāzirāt)
— a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits
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Hungarian:
szeánsz
— a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits
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Icelandic:
miðilsfundur
— a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits
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Italian:
seduta spiritica
— a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits
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Japanese:
神降ろし
(kami oroshi)
— a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits
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Māori:
kauwhata
— a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits
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Norwegian Bokmål:
seanse
— a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits
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Polish:
seans
— a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits
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Portuguese:
sessão espírita
— a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits
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Russian:
сеа́нс
(seáns)
— a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits
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Russian:
спирити́ческий сеа́нс
(spiritíčeskij seáns)
— a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits
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Spanish:
sesión espiritista
— a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits
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Swedish:
seans
— a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits
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Turkish:
seans
— a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits
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Yiddish:
אוב
(ub)
— a ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits
