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Narrator: Today's word is "Seance" — noun, pronounced /ˈseɪɒ̃s/, with the stress on "sea".
Narrator: A seance is a meeting at which people attempt to communicate with the spirits of the dead.
Narrator: In plain English, a seance is a gathering where a medium tries to contact ghosts.
Narrator: It comes from the French séance, meaning a sitting, from the Old French seoir, to sit.
Narrator: "To hold a seance" describes conducting a gathering to contact spirits.
Narrator: It differs from ritual because a seance specifically aims to contact the dead, whereas a ritual is a broader ceremony.
Narrator: "A seance room" is a sense meaning a room used for spiritualist gatherings.
Narrator: Spiritualism, the occult, parapsychology and literature all rely on the word seance.
Narrator: So remember: a seance is a spirit-contact meeting, from the French for a sitting.
Speaker A: What is a seance?
Speaker B: A spirit meeting! SEANCE comes from the French séance, a sitting, so it means a gathering to communicate with the dead.
Speaker A: So a medium holds a seance?
Speaker B: Yes — to contact spirits!
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "Hold a seance"; "a seance room"; "a fake seance" — gathering, place and fraud.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Don't write the accent in English, because the common English spelling is seance without the accent.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: 'Medium' the channeling cousin, 'ritual' the ceremony twin, 'summoning' the calling alternative. The word keeps its eerie charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "seance" in AI prompts — useful for occult apps and story tools.
Speaker A: So a prompt could frame a story?
Speaker B: Right. For a writing app, you'd write:
Prompt: Write a short scene where characters hold a seance, naming one spirit.
Speaker A: How about an occult tool?
Speaker B: Ask the model to describe:
Prompt: Draft a guide to a fictional seance, naming two elements.
Speaker A: Could it help with a history bot?
Speaker B: Yes, you can frame spiritualism:
Prompt: Summarise in two sentences when seances were popular, naming one era.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: For a game chatbot, try this:
Prompt: Write a short quest brief involving a seance, naming one reward.
Seance — meaning in Arabic & definition More S courses GL Dictionary