umbra (ˈʌmbrə)
\UHM-bruh\ , noun;

1. shade; shadow.
2. the invariable or characteristic accompaniment or companion of a person or thing.
3. Astronomy.
. a. the complete or perfect shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the direct light from the source of illumination is completely cut off. Compare penumbra ( def. 1a ) .
. b. the dark central portion of a sunspot. Compare penumbra ( def. 1b ) .
4. a phantom or shadowy apparition, as of someone or something not physically present; ghost; spectral image.

постоянный спутник; чья-л. тень; дух умершего



Origin:
1590–1600; < Latin: shade, shadow
—Related forms
um·bral, adjective

Synonyms:
adumbration, blackness, coolness, cover, darkness, dusk, gloominess, obscuration, obscurity, penumbra, screen, semidarkness, shadiness, shadow, shadows, umbra , umbrage
apparition, bogey, haunt, manes, phantasm, phantom, revenant, shadow, specter, spirit, umbra , wraith
body, character, creature, ghost, human being, individual, living soul, man, mortal, person, personage, phantom, shadow, spirit, umbra , woman

Antonyms:
brightness, light

Quotes:
She leaned over me, dark and mother-warm, and I could hardly breathe in her umbra of cigarettes and gin.
-- Jonathan Strahan, Eidolon
The umbra - shade, shadow, uninvited guest - is invited in; as a dream, the guest becomes host to a sensuous pleasure that is all the more real for being an imitation, and all the more an artifice for being imaginal, "only" a dream.
-- Patricia Cox Miller, Dreams in Late Antiquity: Studies in the Imagination of a Culture
In the umbra, the tunnel, when the mind went wombtomb, then it was real thought and real living, living thought.
-- Samuel Beckett


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