shroud
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shroud¹
- /ˈʃɹaʊ̯d/ Canada, US, UK
- /ˈʃɹæʊ̯d/
- /ˈʃɹaːd/
Rhymes with -aʊd
Where it comes from
From Middle English shroud, from Old English sċrūd, from Proto-Germanic *skrūdą (“shroud, dress, attire”). Compare Proto-Germanic *skrūdijaną (“to shroud”).
Cognate with Old Norse skrúð, Swedish skrud (“shroud”), Danish and Norwegian skrud (“splendid attire”)).
noun shrouds
- That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment. swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds
- Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet. O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of any tower, […] Or bid me go into a new-made grave And hide me with a dead man in his shroud […]
- That which covers or shelters like a shroud. Jura answers through her misty shroud.
- A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt. The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.
- One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively. Then - a shock of water, a wild rush of boiling foam, and I was clinging for my life to the shroud, ay, swept straight out from it like a flag in a gale.
- One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
- A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
Similar: sindon
shroud²
- /ˈʃɹaʊ̯d/ Canada, US, UK
- /ˈʃɹæʊ̯d/
- /ˈʃɹaːd/
Rhymes with -aʊd
Where it comes from
From Middle English schrouden (> Anglo-Latin scrudāre), from Middle English schroud (“shroud”) (see above).
verb shrouds · shrouding · shrouded
- To cover with a shroud. The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.
- To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud. The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.
- To take shelter or harbour. [T]hough this my vvorke, ovvne not vvorth enough to deſerve your patronage, yet ſuch is your benigne humanity, that I am confident you vvill daigne it your protection, under vvhich it vvillingly ſhrovvdes it ſelfe.
shroud³
- /ˈʃɹaʊ̯d/ Canada, US, UK
- /ˈʃɹæʊ̯d/
- /ˈʃɹaːd/
Rhymes with -aʊd
Where it comes from
Variant of shred.
noun shrouds
- The branching top of a tree; foliage. Behold, the Assyrian was a Cedar in Lebanon with faire branches, and with a shadowing shrowd, and of an hie stature, and his top was among the thicke boughes.
verb shrouds · shrouding · shrouded
- To lop the branches from (a tree).
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: enshroud, cover, sheet, tack, pall, cerement, hide, mainsheet, weather sheet, winding-clothes, winding-sheet, liner, veil, casing, covers, sleeve
noun
Similar: sindon
Translations
Every language
noun dress for the dead
| Español | sudario, mortaja |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 壽衣 /寿衣 shòuyī |
| Português | mortalha, sudário |
| Français | linceul, suaire |
| Deutsch | Grabtuch, Leichentuch |
| Italiano | sudario, sindone |
| Ελληνικά | σάβανο sávano |
| Русский | са́ван sávan, пелена́ pelená, покро́в pokróv |
| Tiếng Việt | vải liệm |
| العربية | كَفَن kafan |
| עברית | תַּכְרִיךְ tachrích |
noun mast support
| Español | obenquillo, obenque, brandal |
|---|---|
| Português | ovém |
| Français | hauban |
| Deutsch | Want |
| Italiano | sartia |
| Русский | ва́нты vánty |
| עברית | רִכְסָה rikhsah, וַנְטָה vantah, יֶתֶר צַד yeter tsad |
noun a streamlined protective covering
| Français | coiffe |
|---|
Talk about this word "shroud." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/shroud. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. shroud. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/shroud "shroud." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/shroud.Cite this
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title = {shroud},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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