Definitions for Umbra

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Umbra um·bra

Spelling: [uhm-bruh]

IPA: /ˈʌm brə/

Umbra 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 61 anagrams from letters in Umbra (abmru).

Definitions for Umbra

noun

1. shade; shadow.
2. the invariable or characteristic accompaniment or companion of a person or thing.
3. Astronomy. the complete or perfect shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the direct light from the source of illumination is completely cut off. Compare penumbra (def 1a). the dark central portion of a sunspot. Compare penumbra (def 1b).
4. a phantom or shadowy apparition, as of someone or something not physically present; ghost; spectral image.

Origin of Umbra

1590-1600; Latin: shade, shadow

Examples for Umbra

Each spot is quite sharply divided into an umbra and a penumbra.

Diagram of the use of the umbra Versa, at two observations; Astrol.

Sedentes in tenebris, et in umbra mortis, vinctos in mendicitate.

Durois advised me that the Kyng of umbra had put two padres to death, viz.

"Manes," "umbra," "simulacra," are the expressions of Cicero and Virgil.

Like putting together an atomic symbol and Russian money to make 'troubles,' and using 'umbra' instead of shadow.

I saw her wander off to the music-room directly after dinner, and I believe your umbra—Mr. What-d'ye-call-him—went with her.

The double of the Egyptian sepulchral records corresponds exactly to the of the Greeks and the umbra of the Latins.

The umbra is a wide margin, of lighter shade, and is often of greater extent than the nucleus.

He was Maulevrier's umbra, and must go where his patron went.