Definitions for umber

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umber um·ber

Spelling: [uhm-ber]

IPA: /ˈʌm bər/

Umber is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in umber (bemru).

Definitions for umber

noun

1. an earth consisting chiefly of a hydrated oxide of iron and some oxide of manganese, used in its natural state as a brown pigment (raw umber) or, after heating, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt umber)
2. the color of such a pigment; dark dusky brown or dark reddish brown.
3. Ichthyology. the European grayling, Thymallus thymallus.
4. North England Dialect. shade; shadow.

adjective

1. of the color umber.

verb (used with object)

1. to color with or as if with umber.

Origin of umber

1250-1300; Middle English umbre, umber shade, shadow Old French umbre Latin umbra; in sense “earth” French terre d'ombre or Italian terra di ombra

Examples for umber

Rare and far, the sails of junks patched the horizon with umber polygons.

The eggs are white or greenish white, specked with reddish brown and umber.

The people who live in this look as it painted in umber by old Dutch masters.

More and more she loved these umber wastes, over which cloud-shadows drifted like the darkening ripple of the wind on the sea.

It never can be represented by umber, unless altered by contrast.'

Differs from C. stenocoleus in sulcate pileus and umber stem.

They are of a grayish or buffy color spotted with umber and lilac.

These formulas, however, contained a small percentage of umber and ochre.

You could almost, under the umber silk, see the rippling of his veins.

The principal and most useful of these are—umber, terra di Sienna (both burnt and raw), Spanish brown, and some of the ochres.