silhouette

See also Silhouette

English

Wikipedia

Wikipedia

A silhouette of a skate.

Etymology

From French silhouette.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˌsɪlʊˈwɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

silhouette (plural silhouettes)

1. An illustrated outline filled in with a solid color(s), usually only black, and intended to represent the shape of an object without revealing any other visual details; a similar appearance produced when the object being viewed is situated in relative darkness with brighter lighting behind it; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.

   I could see a silhouette of a figure looking out from the window, but I couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman.

Translations

representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color

Catalan: silueta (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 輪廓 (cmn), 轮廓 (cmn) (lúnkuò) Czech: silueta (cs) f. Esperanto: silueto (eo) Finnish: siluetti (fi), varjokuva (fi) French: silhouette (fr) f. German: Silhouette (de) f., Schattenriss (de) m. Hebrew: צלולית (he) (tslulít) f. Italian: silhouette (it) f., controluce (it), sagoma (it) Japanese: シルエット (ja) (shiruetto)

Korean: 실루엣 (ko) (silluet) Norwegian: Bokmål: silhuett (nb) m. Nynorsk: silhuett (nn) m. Portuguese: silhueta (pt) f. Romanian: siluetă (ro) f. Russian: силуэт (ru) (siluét) m. Slovene: silhueta (sl) f. Spanish: silueta (es) f. Swedish: siluett (sv) Turkish: silüet (tr)

Verb

silhouette (third-person singular simple present silhouettes, present participle silhouetting, simple past and past participle silhouetted)

1. To represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette.

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French

Etymology

Named from Étienne de Silhouette, a French politician.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /silwɛt/

• Audio (une silhouette)

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Noun

silhouette f. (plural silhouettes)

1. silhouette