Meaning

10 senses
  1. Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material.

    Vorhang

    покрыва́лоpokryválo, заве́саzavésa

    покрива́лоpokryválo, покри́вкаpokrývka, заві́саzavísa

  2. (figuratively)Anything that partially obscures a clear view.

  3. A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.

  4. A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul (especially over the head)

    a nun's veil

    a paten veil

    Schleier

    вуа́льvuálʹ, фата́fatá

    вуа́льvuálʹ, ве́льонvélʹon, серпанокserpanok

    the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)

  5. The calyptra of mosses.

  6. Velum (A circular membrane round the cap of a medusa).

  7. A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.

  8. A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; a velum.

  9. An obscuration of the clearness of the tones in pronunciation.

  10. (figuratively)That which separates the living and the spirit world.

Examples

53 sentences
  1. Is that a veiled threat?

    Це прихована загроза?

    ruЭто скрытая угроза?

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  2. Donald covered himself with a veil.

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  3. Was that a thinly-veiled threat?

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  4. Tom made a thinly-veiled threat.

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  5. It was a thinly-veiled threat.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
something to hide an object:
covering for a person or thing:
Русский
By meaning 2
something to hide an object:
covering for a person or thing:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
something to hide an object:
covering for a person or thing:

Origin

From Middle English veil, veyl, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French veil (“sail, vei

From Middle English veil, veyl, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French veil (“sail, veil, shroud”) (Francien Old French voil, French voile), Latin vēlum (“cloth, covering”). Displaced Middle English scleire, scleyre, sleyre, slyre (“veil”) (compare German Schleier). Doublet of velum and voile.

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Forms

plural: veils
Singularveil
Pluralveils

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms:velum
  • a garment that covers the head and face:head covering
  • a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl:humeral veil
  • the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth):caulembryonic membrane

Word family

16 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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