English Explanatory Dictionary

shroud

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
  2. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
  3. That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
  4. A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
  5. One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
  6. One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
  7. A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
verb
  1. To cover with a shroud.
  2. To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
  3. To take shelter or harbour.
noun
  1. The branching top of a tree; foliage.
verb
  1. To lop the branches from (a tree).

Pronunciation

/ˈʃɹaʊ̯d/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-shroud.wav /ˈʃɹæʊ̯d/ /ˈʃɹaːd/

Word forms

shroud shrouds shrouding shrouded

Etymology

From Middle English shroud, from Old English sċrūd, from Proto-Germanic *skrūdą. Cognate with Old Norse skrúð (“the shrouds of a ship”) ( > Danish, Norwegian skrud (“splendid attire”)).

Synonyms

sindon cloak cover mantle veil

Derived words

barrel shroud beshroud futtock shroud shroudie shroud knot shroud-laid shroudless shroudlike shroud-waving shroudy unshroud enshroud overshroud reshroud shrouder
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