umbrella – English noun declension

English noun forms of umbrella

Noun: umbrella
Singularumbrella
Pluralumbrellas

Sample Sentences

  • Quick, grab that umbrella before you get rained on!
  • There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls. [1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0091:]
  • When the [lost property] office first opened, the most frequently lost items were umbrellas. Every white-collar professional carried one, but despite, or because of, that they were easily forgotten about. […] In the 1930s, a quarter of a million umbrellas a year came into the office. Now it's more like 10,000. [2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 197:]
  • The fighters provide a defensive air umbrella over the battle group.
  • The test facility was established under the umbrella of the company's quality program.
  • Jellyfish are composed of more than 90% water and most of their umbrella mass is made up of gelatinous material.
  • Using umbrellas for shooting a wedding party is ok, but not necessary. [2014, Michael Allen, Modern Wedding Photography, page 97:]

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ombrella (“parasol, sunshade”), from Late Latin umbrella (influenced by umbra (“shadow, shade”)), from Latin umbella, from umbra + -la (diminutive suffix). See: Italian Nouns 'ombrella', Latin Nouns 'umbella'.

Verbs referencing "umbrella"

Spanish Nouns sombrilla, Zulu Nouns isambulela.