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somber (adj.)
1760 "gloomy, shadowy" (earlier sombrous, c. 1730), from French sombre "dark, gloomy," from Old French sombre (14c.), from an adjective from Late Latin subumbrare "to shadow," from sub "under" (see sub-) + umbra "shade, shadow" (perhaps from a suffixed form of PIE *andho- "blind, dark;" see umbrage). Related: Somberly; somberness.
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Definitions of somber
Dictionary entries near somber
Somalia
somatic
somatization
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somatosensory
somber
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sombrero
-some
some
somebody