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Definition: Umber |
UmberAdjective1. Of the color of any of various natural brown earth pigments. Noun1. An earth pigment. 2. A medium to dark brown color. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "umber" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1600. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Brown earth pigment containing ferric oxide together with silica. C. I. Pigment Brown 7. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Umber The paint so called was first made in Umbria, Italy. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A brown earth that is darker than ocher and sienna, consisting of iron oxide and oxyhydroxide with manganese oxides, clay, and lime. Highly valued as a permanent pigment, it may be used in its greenish brown natural state (raw umber) or in the dark or reddish brown calcined state(burnt umber). CF:ocher; sienna. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: UmberSynonyms: burnt umber (n), chocolate (n), coffee (n), deep brown (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Umber |
| English words defined with "umber": Burnt umber ♦ Grayling ♦ Hammerkop ♦ Mummy brown ♦ Umbery, Umbre, Umbrette, Umbriere. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "umber": umbrage. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Umber" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (raw umber, umber), Manx (umber ). |
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| "Umber" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Umber" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 40 | 54,274 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "umber": burnt umber ♦ Cologne umber ♦ German umber ♦ raw umber ♦ umber bird ♦ Umber View Heights. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "umber": umber-and-cream-coloured, umber-coloured. | |
Ending with "umber": burnt-umber. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
umber | 20 |
raw umber | 5 |
burnt umber | 4 |
phone umber | 3 |
color umber | 2 |
hulk umber | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "umber"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ngjyrë kafe e kuqërreme, bojë dheu. (various references) | |
Arabic | اللبيس الأوربي سمك, بني مصفر, بني قرمزي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | умбра, червеникавокафяв (foxy, hepatic, liver-colored, liver-coloured, rufous, russet, titillation), тъмнокафяв (deep brown, taupe). (various references) | |
Chinese | 黛 (umber-black dye for painting the eyebrow). (various references) | |
Czech | žlutohnìdý (buff, fawn, fulvous, tawny). (various references) | |
Danish | umbra. (various references) | |
Dutch | omber. (various references) | |
Farsi | قهوه ای مایل بزرد, سایه انداختن (Overcast), سایه (Auspices, Shade, Shadow, Sunshade, Umbra, Umbrage), روح (Esprit, Ghost, Numen, Phantom, Psyche, Specter, Spirit, Spook, Sprite, Umbra, Wraith, Zinc, Zing), شبح (Ghost, Phantom, Spectrum, Spook, Sprite, Umbra, Wraith). (various references) | |
Finnish | ruskamittari (scarce umber, scarce umber moth). (various references) | |
French | terre d'ombre. (various references) | |
German | Umber (raw umber), umbrabraun. (various references) | |
Greek | ελαιόμαυροσ, ελαιόμαυρο χρώμα, ομβρική γαία. (various references) | |
Hebrew | חום א"מ"ם (russet, rust, titian). (various references) | |
Hungarian | umbrabarna, umbra. (various references) | |
Italian | terra d'ombra, color terra di siena. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | アンド回路 (ambassador, amber, ambiance, ambivalence, ambulance, amp, amphetamine, amplifier, ampoule, AND circuit, boredom, enfants terribles, impromptu, umbrella cut, umpire, unbalance, unbelievable, unfair, unhappy, unparser, unplayable). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | アンバー (amber). (various references) | |
Manx | umber. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | erumbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fusco (fuscous), escuro (abstruse, blackish, bock, dark, darkling, deep, dim, dimness, dismal, dusk, dusky, fuscous, gloomy, inky, mirk, moonless, muddy, murk, murky, obscure, opaque, overcast, sable, somber, sombre, swart), cor de umbra. (various references) | |
Russian | умбра. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | umbra, zagasitomrke boje, od umbre. (various references) | |
Spanish | tierra de sombra, ocre oscuro. (various references) | |
Swedish | umbrafärgad, umbra (umbra). (various references) | |
Turkish | ombra boyası, koyu kahverengi (chocolate, dark brown, sienna). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | умбра, фарбувати умброю, тінь (dark, ghost, shade, shadow, umbra, umbrage), темно-брунатний. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tối m u (dingy), nâu đen; sẫm m u, m u nâu đen. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "umber": umbered, umbering, umbers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "umber": clumber, crumber, cucumber, cumber, disencumber, dumber, encumber, incumber, lumber, number, outnumber, plumber, prenumber, renumber, slumber. (additional references) | |
Words containing "umber": bumbershoot, bumbershoots, clumbers, crumbers, cucumbers, cumberbund, cumberbunds, cumbered, cumberer, cumberers, cumbering, cumbers, cumbersome, cumbersomely, cumbersomeness, cumbersomenesses, disencumbered, disencumbering, disencumbers, encumbered, encumbering, encumbers, incumbered, incumbering, incumbers, lumbered, lumberer, lumberers, lumbering, lumberjack, lumberjacks, lumberman, lumbermen, lumbers, lumberyard, lumberyards, numberable, numbered, numberer, numberers, numbering, numberless, numbers, outnumbered, outnumbering, outnumbers, plumberies, plumbers, plumbery, prenumbered, prenumbering. (additional references) | |
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"Umber" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bumber, bummber, Gumburd, humber, ibm-er, mber, M'beri, mumber, submer, sumber, ubar, Ubbar, ube, uber, Ueber, umb, Umbara, Umberg, umbor, umbr, umbue, ume, uner, unher, unmer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: brume. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-m-r-u" | |
-1 letter: berm, mure, rube. | |
-2 letters: bum, bur, emu, reb, rem, rub, rue, rum, urb. | |
-3 letters: be, em, er, me, mu, re, um. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-m-r-u" | |
+1 letter: brumes, bummer, bumper, cumber, dumber, embrue, erbium, imbrue, lumber, number, rumble, umbers, umbrae. | |
+2 letters: bumbler, bummers, bumpers, bumpier, buxomer, clumber, crumbed, crumber, crumble, cumbers, drumble, embrued, embrues, embrute, erbiums, fumbler, grumble, humbler, imbrued, imbrues, imbrute, jumbler, lumbers, mumbler, numbers, plumber, replumb, rumbaed, rumbled, rumbler, rumbles, slumber, terbium, tumbler, tumbrel, umbered, umbrage. | |
+3 letters: aerobium, ambusher, bemurmur, bermudas, brumbies, brunizem, bumblers, bumpered, cerebrum, cherubim, clumbers, crumbers, crumbier, crumbled, crumbles, cucumber, cumbered, cumberer, drumbeat, drumbled, drumbles, embruing, embruted, embrutes, encumber, fumblers, grumbled, grumbler, grumbles, humblers, imbruted, imbrutes, incumber, jumblers, lumbered, lumberer, mulberry, mumblers, numbered, numberer, penumbra, plumbers, plumbery, renumber, replumbs, resubmit, rhumbaed, rumblers, slumbers, slumbery, stumbler, subframe, sublimer, submerge, submerse, terbiums, tumblers, tumbrels, umbellar, umbering, umbrages, umbrella, umbrette, unlimber. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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