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- Dictionarysil·hou·ette/ˌsiləˈwet/
noun
- 1. the dark shape and outline of someone or something visible against a lighter background, especially in dim light: "she paused to see its silhouette against the dimming sky"
verb
- 1. cast or show (someone or something) as a dark shape and outline against a lighter background: "the castle was silhouetted against the sky"
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The meaning of SILHOUETTE is a likeness cut from dark material and mounted on a light ground or one sketched in outline and solidly colored in. How to use silhouette in a sentence. Did you know? Synonym Discussion of Silhouette.
a dark shape seen against a light background: [ U ] An unidentified witness was shown on camera in silhouette.
Silhouette definition: a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.. See examples of SILHOUETTE used in a sentence.
A silhouette is dark shadow, like a silhouette of a person standing under a street lamp, or a drawing that shows only the shape of an object.
a dark shape seen against a light background: [ U ] An unidentified witness was shown on camera in silhouette.
A silhouette is the solid dark shape that you see when someone or something has a bright light or pale background behind them. American English : silhouette / sɪluˈɛt / Brazilian Portuguese : silhueta
1. a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a person's profile, filled in with black or another color. 2. the outline or general shape of something. 3. a dark image outlined against a lighter background. 4. to show in or as if in a silhouette.
the shape of something when the light is behind it so that you cannot see any details: He saw a woman in silhouette. silhouetted. adjective. the roofs silhouetted against the night sky. (Definition of silhouette from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
silhouette. noun. /ˌsɪluˈet/. /ˌsɪluˈet/. [countable, uncountable] the dark outline or shape of a person or an object that you see against a light background. the silhouette of chimneys and towers. The trees were black silhouettes against the pale sky.
SILHOUETTE meaning: 1 : a dark shape in front of a light background; 2 : a picture of something showing it as a dark shape on a light background.
