umbrellanoun [ C ]
uk/ʌmˈbrel.ə/us/ʌmˈbrel.ə/umbrella noun [ C ] (DEVICE)
A2 a device for protection against the rain, consisting of a stick with a folding frame covered in material at one end and usually a handle at the other, or a similar, often larger, device used for protection against the sun:
I felt a few drops of rain, so I put my umbrella up.
I left my umbrella on the bus yesterday.
a folding umbrella
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- Damn! I've left my umbrella in the office.
- "You've got my umbrella!" he ejaculated.
- She absent-mindedly left her umbrella on the bus.
- I'll have to go back for my umbrella.
- The umbrella was ingeniously devised to fold up into your pocket.
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Gloves & accessories
- brolly
- buttonhole
- chunni
- corsage
- finger
- fingerless glove
- gloved
- hanky
- hatpin
- mitt
- mitten
- muff
- parasol
- pocket handkerchief
- rosette
- shade
- sunshade
- tiepin
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umbrella noun [ C ] (GROUP)
something that includes or represents a group or range of similar things:
He runs a group of companies under the umbrella of Universal Foods.
The Organization of Islamic Conference is an umbrella organization representing 57 Muslim nations.
Existentialism was really an umbrella term to lump together the works of several philosophers and writers.
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Classifying and creating order
- alphabetize
- arrange
- arrangement
- catalogue
- categorize
- format
- kingdom
- lay sth out
- precedence
- prioritize
- put sth/sb in a pigeonhole idiom
- range
- reconstruct
- rejig
- stream
- tick sth off
- topology
- track
- tracking
- triage
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