shades
Britishplural noun
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gathering darkness at nightfall
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a slang word for sunglasses
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(often capital) a literary term for Hades
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(foll by of) undertones or suggestions
shades of my father!
Example Sentences
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That sort of black-and-white thinking was always going to clash with the shades of gray in Christopher Nolan’s smash-hit adaptation of “The Odyssey.”
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has released a dazzling new image featuring more than 500,000 stars glowing in shades of red, white, and blue.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
Elle meanwhile manages to commit faux pas after faux pas in a community that gives all-new meaning to 50 shades of gray and sneers at anything and everyone from L.A.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
"Governing is done in shades of gray. What his grey-mode of government will look like, we still don't know."
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
In the middle of the room was a big loom, strung with varying shades of threads.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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