If there is a resemblance between two people or things, they are like each other, especially in how they look. We use it a lot about faces: there is a strong resemblance between the sisters. You can also say a drawing has a resemblance to a real street. It is a noun. The everyday verb is resemble: she resembles her mother. Resemblance is a little more careful than they look the same; it leaves room for quite like, not exactly the same. Though actually, people stretch it past faces. The film bears little resemblance to the book means the film is not really like the book. Bear a resemblance is a set phrase you will hear often. A family resemblance is the look that brothers, sisters, or cousins share.