Definition of "appears" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of appear. (verb)

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• "Romance appears hundreds of years later, and it _appears more immediately and earliest in connection with precisely those districts in which the passage of the few Teutonic, Slavonic and other barbarians had been least felt_."
• "Although the term appears a couple of times in the late 14th century, it would not attain its current meaning until roughly 1900."
• "The term appears as "natural-born citizen" in the U.S. Constitution to reflect a different form of government."