English
Etymology
Old English sceaduwe, inflected form of sceadu ( > English shade).
Pronunciation
AHD|sh�d'�, IPA|/��æd��/
audio|en-us-shadow.ogg|Audio (US)
Noun
en-noun
- A dark image projected onto a surface where light is blocked by the shade of an object.
#: My shadow lengthened as the sun began to set.
- Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom, obscurity.
#: I immediately jumped in shadow as I saw them approach.
- That which looms as though a shadow.
#: I don't have a shadow of doubt in my mind that my plan will succeed.
#: The shadow of fear of me being outed always affects how I live my life.
#: I lived in her shadow my whole life.
- Merely a hint of substance.
#: He came back from war the shadow of a man.
#: He did not give even a shadow of respect to the professor.
- One who secretly or furtively follows another.
#: The constable was promoted to working as a shadow for the Royals.
Translations
trans-top|dark image projected onto a surface
trreq|Afrikaans
Albanian: hije f
Arabic: Arab|ظ� IPAchar|(�ill)
trreq|Armenian
Basque: itzal, errainu, ilunune
trreq|Bengali
Breton: skeud m
Bulgarian: t+|bg|��нка|f|trsjanka|scCyrl
Catalan: t-|ca|ombra|f
Chinese: �影 (yīny�ng)
Croatian: t-|hr|sjena|f
Czech: t-|cs|stÃn|m
trreq|Danish
Dutch: t+|nl|schaduw|m
trreq|Esperanto
trreq|Estonian
Finnish: t+|fi|varjo
French: t+|fr|ombre|f
Frisian: skaad n
Georgian: á��á�©á� á��á��á��á�� (aÄ�rdili)
German: t+|de|Schatten|m
Greek: Ï�κιά (skiá) f, ίÏ�κιοÏ� (Ãskios) m
trreq|Gujarati
Hawaiian: aka, huaka, ʻūmalu
Hebrew: צ� (tzel) m
trreq|Hindi
Hungarian: t-|hu|árnyék
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Icelandic: t+|is|skuggi|m
Italian: t+|it|ombra|f
Japanese: å½± (kage)
Korean: 그림� (geurimja)
Latin: t-|la|umbra|f
trreq|Latvian
trreq|Lithuanian
Malay: bayang
trreq|Maltese
Norwegian: t-|no|skygge|m
Ojibwe: agawaateshinong
trreq|Old English
trreq|Persian
Pitjantjatjara: wiltja, ka�ku
Polish: cie� m
Punjabi: parchawan
Portuguese: t+|pt|sombra|f
Russian: �ен� (ten�) f
Slovene: t+|sl|senca|f
Spanish: t+|es|sombra|f
Swedish: t+|sv|skugga|c
trreq|Tamil
Thai: Thai|��ามัว (ngao muaa), Thai|��ามื� (ngao mêut)
Turkish: t-|tr|gölge
Telugu: న�డ (niida)
Tamazight: amalu m
trreq|Vietnamese
trreq|Welsh
Yiddish: ש�ָ�� (shotn) m
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trans-top|relative darkness
Japanese: � (kage)
trans-mid
Korean: 그� (geuneul), �� (eungdal)
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trans-top|one who secretly or furtively follows another
Bulgarian: п�е�ледва� (presledva�) m
trans-mid
Slovene: senca f
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ttbc|Mongolian: ���� (suuder)
ttbc|Slovak: tie� m, tô�a f
Verb
en-verb
- To block light or radio transmission.
#: Looks like that cloud's going to shadow us.
- To secretly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance.
- complang To make an identifier, usually a variable, inaccessible by declaring another of the same name within the scope of the first.
Derived terms
rain shadow
shadow acting
shadow minister
shadow cabinet
shadow boxing
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fa:shadow
fr:shadow
ko:shadow
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it:shadow
hu:shadow
pt:shadow
sr:shadow
fi:shadow
ta:shadow
te:shadow
vi:shadow
tr:shadow
zh:shadow
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