ombre

See also: ombré and Ombre

English

Etymology 1

French hombre, from Spanish hombre, literally, a man, from Latin homo. See human.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɒm.bə/, /ˈɒm.bɹeɪ/

Noun

ombre (uncountable)

  1. A Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10.
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    • Young
      When ombre calls, his hand and heart are free, / And, joined to two, he fails not to make three.

Etymology 2

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Noun

ombre (plural ombres)

  1. (archaic) A large Mediterranean food fish Umbrina cirrosa
Synonyms

Etymology 3

From French ombre ("shade"). Doublet of umber.

Noun

ombre (plural ombres)

  1. (colors) A gradual blending of one color hue to another, usually moving tints and shades from light to dark.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ombre in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin homo, hominem.

Noun

ombre m

  1. man
  2. a 17th-century Spanish card game (c. 1650-1660), usually played by three persons with a pack of 40 cards.
  3. the lone player in this game undertaking to win the pool against two defenders.

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Latin umbra.

Noun

ombre f (plural ombres)

  1. shade, shadow
  2. darkness
  3. ghost
Derived terms

Verb

ombre

  1. first-person singular present indicative of ombrer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of ombrer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ombrer
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of ombrer
  5. second-person singular imperative of ombrer

Etymology 2

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Noun

ombre m (plural ombres)

  1. (Ichthyology) A fish of Osteichthyes of the freshwater family Salmonidae, of the genus Thymallus.
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Further reading

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin umbra.

Noun

ombre f (plural ombris)

  1. shadow
  2. shade

Italian

Noun

ombre f

  1. plural of ombra

Ladino

Noun

ombre m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling אומברי‎)

  1. man

Norman

Etymology

Old French onbre < Latin umbra.

Noun

ombre f (plural ombres)

  1. shadow (poorly lit area)

Old French

Noun

ombre f (oblique plural ombres, nominative singular ombre, nominative plural ombres)

  1. Alternative form of onbre

Spanish

Noun

ombre m (plural ombres)

  1. Obsolete spelling of hombre

Venetian

Noun

ombre

  1. plural of ombra
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