2. Verb. (third-person singular of shadow) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shadows
1. shadow [v] - See also: shadow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shadows
Literary usage of Shadows
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Republic of Plato: An Ideal Commonwealth by Plato (1901)
"Like ourselves, I replied; and they see only their own shadows, ... True, he
said; how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to ..."
2. The Republic of Plato: An Ideal Commonwealth by Plato (1901)
"True, he said; how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never
allowed to move their heads? And of the objects which are being carried in ..."
3. The Republic of Plato: An Ideal Commonwealth by Plato (1901)
"Like ourselves, I replied ; and they see only their own shadows, ... True, he
said ; how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed ..."
4. Riders of the Purple Sage: A Novel by Zane Grey (1912)
"No doubt, Jane thought, the rider, in his almost superhuman power of foresight,
saw behind the horizon the dark, lengthening shadows that were soon to crowd ..."
5. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"As science : belief: : understanding : knowledge of shadows. But let us leave
the further distribution and division of the objects of opinion and of ..."
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