Definitions for veil

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veil veil

Spelling: [veyl]

IPA: /veɪl/

Veil is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in veil (eilv).

Definitions for veil

noun

1. a piece of opaque or transparent material worn over the face for concealment, for protection from the elements, or to enhance the appearance.
2. a piece of material worn so as to fall over the head and shoulders on each side of the face, forming a part of the headdress of a nun.
3. the life of a nun, especially a cloistered life.
4. something that covers, separates, screens, or conceals:
5. a mask, disguise, or pretense:
6. Botany, Anatomy, Zoology. a velum.
7. Mycology. a membrane that covers the immature mushroom of many fungi and breaks apart as the mushroom expands, leaving distinctive remnants on the cap, stalk, or stalk base.
8. Scot. and North England. a caul.

Idioms

1. take the veil, to become a nun.

verb (used with object)

1. to cover or conceal with or as with a veil:
2. to hide the real nature of; mask; disguise:

verb (used without object)

1. to don or wear a veil:

Origin of veil

1175-1225; (noun) Middle English veile Anglo-French Latin vēla, neuter plural (taken in VL as feminine singular) of vēlum covering; (v.) Middle English veilen Anglo-French veiler, derivative

Examples for veil

Would the veil hold the handmade curls in exactly the proper place?

And Sidney knew how it was meant; she smiled into his eyes and drew down her veil briskly.

Mrs. Kouachi works at a nursery and has worn the veil since she made the pilgrimage to Mecca in 2008.

The Arab women wore their colored hejabs, and the non-Muslim women dressed modestly and without a veil.

Her hat was in the way of very marked effusion; her veil too.

Watching a woman in a white dress and veil realize she just married the wrong person should be reality TV gold.

No piece of cloth throughout history has sparked more controversy as the veil.

Her hands shook so that she failed twice in the task of refastening her veil.

Yet she would not take back the words either, nor would she grant the veil.

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