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reseña

Spanish, noun

reseña is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “sketch, outline” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of reseñar. With a tilde, reseñá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of reseñar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de reseñar”.

What does reseña mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininesketch, outline

  2. 2

    femininereview

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular present indicative

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

verb

as reseñá
  1. 1

    second-person singular voseo imperative of reseñar

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Acción o efecto de reseñar. 2. Nota que se toma de las señales más distintivas del cuerpo de una persona, de un animal o de otra cosa para conocerlo fácilmente. 3. Opinión breve que se publica sobre algún tema. 4. Revista que se hace de la tropa.

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 reseña

  • reseñas plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to reseña

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is reseña in Spanish?

reseña appears 13 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).