Definition of Shadow

Shadow

Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower. See the Note under Shade, n., 1.

Darkness; shade; obscurity.

A shaded place; shelter; protection; security.

A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water.

That which follows or attends a person or thing like a shadow; an inseparable companion; hence, an obsequious follower.

A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom.

An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical representation; type.

A small degree; a shade.

An uninvited guest coming with one who is invited.

To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity.

To conceal; to hide; to screen.

To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud.

To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade.

To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically.

To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over.

To attend as closely as a shadow; to follow and watch closely, especially in a secret or unobserved manner; as, a detective shadows a criminal.

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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Buddha

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
William Shakespeare

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
Henry David Thoreau

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
C. S. Lewis

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Nelson Mandela

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Lao Tzu

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
Lao Tzu