veil

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French veile (compare modern French voile), from Latin vēla, nominative plural of vēlum.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪl

Noun

veil (plural veils)

1. Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; especially, a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphanous material, to hide or protect the face.
   • 2007. Zerzan, John. Silence. p. 4.

     Beckett complains that "in the forest of symbols" there is never quiet, and longs to break through the veil of language to silence.

2. A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
3. The calyptra of mosses.
4. A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.
5. A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul; a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil; a Moslem veil.
6. Same as velum, 4.
7. (mycology) A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.

Translations

something to hide an object

• Czech: rouška (cs) f
• Danish: dække n
• French: voile (fr) m
• Jèrriais: vouaile m

• Portuguese: véu (pt) m
• Scottish Gaelic: sgàile (gd) f, brat (gd) m
• Spanish: velo (es) m
• Swahili: veli (sw), shela (sw)

covering for a person or thing

• Czech: závoj (cs) m
• Danish: slør n
• French: voile (fr) m
• Greenlandic: kiinnamut saagoq (kl)
• Hungarian: fátyol (hu)

• Jèrriais: vouaile m
• Romanian: văl (ro), voal (ro)
• Scottish Gaelic: sgàile (gd) f, brat (gd) m
• Spanish: velo (es) m
• Swahili: veli (sw), shela (sw)

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• Albanian: vel m
• Catalan: vel m
• Serbo-Croatian: veo m
• Dutch: sluier m
• Esperanto: vualo

• German: Schleier m
• Italian: velo
• Spanish: velo m
• Swedish: slöja c

Verb

veil (third-person singular simple present veils, present participle veiling, simple past and past participle veiled)

1. To don, or garb with, a veil.
2. To conceal as with a veil.

   The forest fire was veiled by smoke, but I could hear it clearly.

Translations

don with a veil

• Czech: nosit roušku (cs), halit (cs)
• Danish: dække

• French: voiler (fr)
• Swahili: veli (sw)

conceal with a veil

• Czech: zahalit (cs), halit (cs)
• Danish: sløre, skjule
• French: voiler (fr)

• Latin: advēlō (la)
• Swahili: veli (sw)

Anagrams

• evil
• Levi
• live
• vile
• vlei

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Verb

veil

1. first-person singular present indicative of veilen
2. imperative of veilen

Anagrams

• viel, vlei