Definitions for shadows

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shadows shad·ow

Spelling: [shad-oh]

IPA: /ˈʃæd oʊ/

Shadows is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 119 anagrams from letters in shadows (adhossw).

Definitions for shadows

noun

1. a dark figure or image cast on the ground or some surface by a body intercepting light.
2. shade or comparative darkness, as in an area.
3. shadows, darkness, especially that coming after sunset.
4. shelter; protection:
5. a slight suggestion; trace:
6. a specter or ghost:
7. a hint or faint, indistinct image or idea; intimation:
8. a mere semblance:
9. a reflected image.
10. the representation of the absence of light on a form. the dark part of a picture, especially as representing the absence of illumination:
11. (in architectural shades and shadows) a dark figure or image cast by an object or part of an object upon a surface that would otherwise be illuminated by the theoretical light source. Compare shade (def 16).
12. a period or instance of gloom, unhappiness, mistrust, doubt, dissension, or the like, as in friendship or one's life:
13. a dominant or pervasive threat, influence, or atmosphere, especially one causing gloom, fear, doubt, or the like:
14. an inseparable companion:
15. a person who follows another in order to keep watch upon that person, as a spy or detective.

adjective

1. of or relating to a shadow cabinet.
2. without official authority:

verb (used with object)

1. to overspread with shadow; shade.
2. to cast a gloom over; cloud:
3. to screen or protect from light, heat, etc.; shade.
4. to follow (a person) about secretly, in order to keep watch over his movements.
5. to represent faintly, prophetically, etc. (often followed by forth).
6. Archaic. to shelter or protect.
7. Archaic. to shade in painting, drawing, etc.

Origin of shadows

before 900; (noun) Middle English sch(e)adew(e), schadow, shadw(e), Old English scead(u)we, oblique case of sceadu shade; (v.) Middle English; Old English sceadwian

Examples for shadows

They seem to belong to us, and then they freely go—behavior very uncharacteristic of a shadow or a shoe.

They possessed no watches but they measured time by the shadow of the sun-dial.

Krampus makes manifest the shadow sides of human nature that Christianity seeks to repress.

Brinsley came from behind a police cruiser parked on a busy street in the shadow of the Tompkins Public Houses.

The bright eyes burned at him for a moment longer out of the shadow.

His footfall was a feathery thing that carried him like a shadow to the door.

If we begin to see the other as our possession and commodity, our shoe, the shadow of our shadow, is there ever a happy outcome?

Then the chief slid out of a shadow and come at us like a tiger.

Running the car into the shadow of a ruined house, I try to sleep.

Hitchcock saw the work of, and probably met, Murnau, the great German filmmaker--the earliest master of bleak light and shadow.