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ombre

/ˈɒm.bə/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.59 in modern English

Syllables
om-bre
IPA
/ˈɒm.bə/
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10.

Uncountable

noun

A large Mediterranean food fish, Umbrina cirrosa.

Archaic

noun

Alternative spelling of ombré (“a gradual blending of one color hue to another”).

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-ōm Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm Proto-Indo-European *-ō Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ Proto-Italic *hemō Latin hemō Latin homō Latin hominem Old Spanish omne Spanish hombrebor. French hombrebor. English ombre Borrowed from French hombre, from Spanish hombre, literally, a man, from Latin homō. Doublet of gome, hombre, homo, and omi. See human.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

omber (alternative, US) ombres (plural)

Synonyms

umbra umbrine drum drumfish shi drum gurbell sea crow bearded umbrine corb

Questions

How do you pronounce ombre?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɒm.bə/.
What does ombre mean?
A Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10.
Where does ombre come from?
It is traced to French.

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