English Explanatory Dictionary

umbrella

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A cloth-covered frame used for protection against rain or sun.
  2. Anything that provides similar protection.
  3. Anything that provides similar overarching coverage of a range of concepts, purposes, groups, etc.
  4. A strategy in which five players in the offensive zone form an umbrella-shaped formation around the opposition's goal net.
  5. The main body of a jellyfish, excluding the tentacles.
  6. An umbrella-shaped reflector with a white or silvery inner surface, used to diffuse a nearby light.
verb
  1. To cover or protect, as if by an umbrella.
  2. To form the dome shape of an open umbrella.
  3. To move like a jellyfish.

Pronunciation

/ʌmˈbɹɛl.ə/ en-us-umbrella.ogg /ˈʌm.bɹɛl.ə/

Word forms

umbrella umbrellas humbrella ombrella umbrello umbreller brella umbrellaing umbrellaed

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ombrella (“parasol, sunshade”), from Late Latin umbrella (influenced by umbra (“shadow, shade”)), from Latin umbella, from umbra + -la (diminutive suffix).

Synonyms

chatta chatra rainshade parapluie gamp bumbershoot umbershoot rain napper brelly

Related words

umbra umbrel umbrere awning bumbershoot gamp parasol shield

Derived words

Amazonian umbrellabird Atlantic umbrella slug bare-necked umbrellabird bastard umbrella thorn beach umbrella cumbrella exumbrella exumbrellar golf umbrella Japanese umbrella pine jumbrella long-wattled umbrellabird nuclear umbrella poor man's umbrella subumbrella subumbrellar sun umbrella Texas umbrella tree umbrella ant umbrella bird umbrellabird umbrella brand umbrella cockatoo umbrella company umbrella corallimorpharian umbrella cover umbrella-cover umbrella crab umbrella fern umbrella fund umbrella grass umbrella insurance umbrella-leaf umbrellaless umbrellalike umbrella octopus umbrella organisation umbrella organization umbrella palm umbrella pine umbrella plant umbrella policy umbrellar umbrella school umbrella stand umbrella step umbrella term umbrella thorn umbrella tree umbrella wasp yellow umbrella slug
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