Schatten — meaning in English
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English meaning
- adumbration noun The condition of being in shade, or, as a countable noun, a shadow itself.
- ghost noun The soul of a dead person believed to appear to or haunt the living.
- shade noun An area of relative darkness where direct sunlight is blocked.
- shadow noun A dark shape cast on a surface when something blocks light.
- shady adjective Sheltered from direct sunlight; full of shade.
- tenebrous adj Dark, gloomy and hard to see clearly.
- umbrage noun A sense of anger or hurt that you feel when someone has offended you.
Senses
Schatten is used for these senses in English:
- adumbration (countable, philosophy, specifically phenomenology) The form of an object as seen by an observer.
- ghost (by extension) Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image.
- shady Causing shade.
- tenebrous (literary, also, figurative) Dark and gloomy; obscure. [from 15th c.]
- umbrage (obsolete) Shadow; shade.
adumbration — full definition
- noun The condition of being in shade, or, as a countable noun, a shadow itself.
- noun A rough drawing or short description that gives only the basic shape of something.
- noun (heraldry) The showing of a design only as an outline, sometimes shaded a darker color than the background.
- noun A rough or symbolic picture of something, or an early, unclear sign of what is to come.
ghost — full definition
- noun The soul of a dead person believed to appear to or haunt the living.
- verb To suddenly stop all communication with someone, especially in a relationship, without any explanation.
- verb To secretly write or produce work credited to someone else (short for ghostwrite).
- verb To make a visual element look faint or grayed-out to show it can't currently be used.
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