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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024um•ber /ˈʌmbɚ/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]- Mineralogybrown earth used as a pigment.
- Fine Artthe color of such a pigment;
dark dusky brown or dark reddish brown. adj. - of the color umber.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024um•ber (um′bər),USA pronunciation n. - Mineralogy, Fine Artan earth consisting chiefly of a hydrated oxide of iron and some oxide of manganese, used in its natural state as a brown pigment (raw umber) or, after heating, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt umber.)
- Fine Artthe color of such a pigment;
dark dusky brown or dark reddish brown. - Fish[Ichthyol.]the European grayling, Thymallus thymallus.
- Scottish Terms[North Eng. Dial.]shade;
shadow.
adj. - of the color umber.
v.t. - to color with or as if with umber.
- French terre d'ombre or Italian terra di ombra
- Latin umbra; in sense "earth''
- Old French umbre
- Middle English umbre, umber shade, shadow 1250–1300
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: umber /ˈʌmbə/ n - any of various natural brown earths containing ferric oxide together with lime and oxides of aluminium, manganese, and silicon
See also burnt umber - any of the dark brown to greenish-brown colours produced by this pigment
- obsolete shade or shadow
adj - of, relating to, or stained with umber
Etymology: 16th Century: from French (terre d')ombre or Italian (terra di) ombra shadow (earth), from Latin umbra shade |