Usually means: Dark shape cast by object.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. shadow: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. shadow, shadow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shadow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shadow: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shadow: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shadow, shadow: Wordnik
  7. shadow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Shadow, shadow: Wiktionary
  9. shadow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. shadow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shadow: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. shadow: Dictionary.com
  13. shadow (n.), shadow (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. shadow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Shadow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. shadow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. shadow: Rhymezone
  19. shadow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. shadow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Shadow, Shadow: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. shadow: Free Dictionary
  23. shadow: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. shadow: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. shadow: Mnemonic Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shadow: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Shadow: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shadow (disambiguation), Shadow (verb), shadow: Legal dictionary
  2. shadow: Financial dictionary
  3. Shadow: Investopedia

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SHADOW: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Shadow (disambiguation), Shadow (verb), shadow: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Shadow (verb), shadow: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. shadow: Idioms
  4. SHADOW: Acronym Finder

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shadow: Easton Bible

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Shadow: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. shadow, shadow: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shadow (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. shadow, shadow: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. The Shadow: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

(Note: See shadowed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
noun:  Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom; obscurity.
noun:  An area protected by an obstacle (likened to an object blocking out sunlight).
noun:  (obsolete or poetic) A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water.
noun:  (figurative) That which looms as though a shadow.
noun:  A small degree; a shade.
noun:  An imperfect and faint representation.
noun:  (UK, law enforcement) A trainee, assigned to work with an experienced officer.
noun:  One who secretly or furtively follows another.
noun:  An inseparable companion.
noun:  (typography) A drop shadow effect applied to lettering in word processors etc.
noun:  An influence, especially a pervasive or a negative one.
noun:  A spirit; a ghost; a shade.
noun:  (obsolete, Latinism) An uninvited guest accompanying one who was invited.
noun:  (Jungian psychology) An unconscious aspect of the personality.
adjective:  Unofficial, informal, unauthorized, but acting as though it were.
adjective:  Having power or influence, but not widely known or recognized.
adjective:  (Commonwealth, politics) Part of, or related to, the opposition in government.
adjective:  (US, politics) Acting in a leadership role before being formally recognized.
verb:  (transitive) To shade, cloud, or darken.
verb:  (transitive) To block light or radio transmission from.
verb:  (particularly espionage) To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance.
verb:  (transitive) To represent faintly and imperfectly.
verb:  (transitive) To hide; to conceal.
verb:  (transitive) To accompany (a professional) during the working day, so as to learn about an occupation one intends to take up.
verb:  (transitive, programming) To make (an identifier, usually a variable) inaccessible by declaring another of the same name within the scope of the first.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To apply the shadowing process to (the contents of ROM).
noun:  A surname.

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