cese
Spanish, noun
cese is spelled C-E-S-E (4 letters) and appears 7.4 times per million words in written Spanish, the 8,927th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cese is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “cessation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of cesar. With an accent, cesé is a different word: “first-person singular preterite indicative of cesar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Interrupción, cesación, alto en una actividad”.
What does cese mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecessation
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
first-person singular preterite indicative of cesar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Interrupción, cesación, alto en una actividad.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cese
- ceses plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to cese
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cese in Spanish?
cese appears 7.4 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).