umbrella
Noun · AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Noun (3)umbrellas
- a lightweight handheld collapsible canopyType of canopyKinds gamp, brollyParts handle, rib, gore
- a formation of military planes maintained over ground operations or targets“an air umbrella over England”Type of defense, defence
- having the function of uniting a group of similar things“the Democratic Party is an umbrella for many liberal groups”“under the umbrella of capitalism”Type of union, unification
Adjective (1)
- covering or applying simultaneously to a number of similar items or elements or groups“an umbrella organization”“umbrella insurance coverage”Opposite incomprehensiveSimilar comprehensive
What does it mean? Question 1 of today’s quiz
Translations
Noun portable canopy that protects from rain
- Spanish
- paraguas
- French
- parapluie
- German
- Regenschirm
- Italian
- ombrello
- Portuguese
- guarda-chuva
- Turkish
- şemsiye
- Russian
- зонт zont
- Arabic
- مِظَلَّة miẓalla
- Chinese
- 雨伞 yǔsǎn
- Japanese
- 傘 kasa
34 more languages
- Dutch
- paraplu
- Polish
- parasol
- Swedish
- paraply
- Greek
- ομπρέλα ompréla
- Korean
- 우산 usan
- Indonesian
- payung
- Vietnamese
- dù
- Hungarian
- esernyő
- Portuguese (PT)
- guarda-chuva
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 雨傘 yǔsǎn
- Albanian
- çadër
- Breton
- disglav
- Catalan
- paraigua
- Czech
- deštník
- Danish
- paraply
- Esperanto
- ombrelo
- Estonian
- vihmavari
- Finnish
- sateenvarjo
- Georgian
- ქოლგა kolga
- Hebrew
- מטריה mitriyá
- Icelandic
- regnhlíf
- Kurdish
- sîwan
- Latvian
- lietussargs
- Lithuanian
- skėtis
- Malagasy
- elo
- Norwegian
- paraply
- Romanian
- umbrelă
- Scottish Gaelic
- sgàilean
- Serbo-Croatian
- kišobran
- Slovak
- dáždnik
- Slovenian
- dežnik
- Swahili
- mwavuli
- Welsh
- ymbarél
- Yiddish
- שירעם shirem
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: It. ombrella, fr. ombra a shade, L. umbra; cf. L. umbella a sunshade, a parasol. Cf. Umbel, Umbrage.
1. A shade, screen, or guard, carried in the hand for sheltering the person from the rays of the sun, or from rain or snow. It is formed of silk, cotton, or other fabric, extended on strips of whalebone, steel, or other elastic material, inserted in, or fastened to, a rod or stick by means of pivots or hinges, in such a way as to allow of being opened and closed with ease. See Parasol.
Underneath the umbrella's oily shed.— John Gay
2. Zoology The umbrellalike disk, or swimming bell, of a jellyfish.
3. Zoology Any marine tectibranchiate gastropod of the genus Umbrella, having an umbrella-shaped shell; — called also umbrella shell.
Umbrella ant Zoology, the sauba ant; — so called because it carries bits of leaves over its back when foraging. Called also parasol ant. — Umbrella bird Zoology, a South American bird (Cephalopterus ornatus) of the family Cotingidae. It is black, with a large and handsome crest consisting of a mass of soft, glossy blue feathers curved outward at the tips. It also has a cervical plume consisting of a long, cylindrical dermal process covered with soft hairy feathers. Called also dragoon bird. — Umbrella leaf Botany, an American perennial herb (Dyphylleia cymosa), having very large peltate and lobed radical leaves. — Umbrella shell. Zoology See Umbrella, 3. — Umbrella tree Botany, a kind of magnolia (Magnolia Umbrella) with the large leaves arranged in umbrellalike clusters at the ends of the branches. It is a native of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Kentucky. Other plants in various countries are called by this name, especially a kind of screw pine (Pandanus odoratissimus).
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54