veils

Meaning of veils

plural noun
  1. a piece of fine material worn by women to protect or conceal the face.
    a white bridal veil
  2. a thing that serves to cover, conceal, or disguise.
    a veil of mist and snow lay over the landscape
    the venture is shrouded in a veil of secrecy
  3. a membrane which is attached to the immature fruiting body of some toadstools and ruptures in the course of development, either ( universal veil ) enclosing the whole fruiting body or ( partial veil ) joining the edges of the cap to the stalk.
verb, 3rd person present
  1. cover with a veil.
    she veiled her face
  2. cover, conceal, or disguise.
    cold mists veiled the mountain peaks
    he wasn't able to veil his disappointment
    the development of these technologies has been veiled in secrecy

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French veil(e ), from Latin vela, plural of velum (see velum).

Information about veils

  • The singular form of veils is: veil.
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Hyphenation of veils

veils

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • veils is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

veils synonyms

Meaning a light gauzy fabric used for veils:

veiling

Meaning (in Spain) a lace or silk scarf worn by women over the head and shoulders:

mantilla

Meaning a veil concealing all of the face except the eyes, worn by some Muslim women in public:

yashmak

Meaning the practice in certain Muslim and Hindu societies of screening women from men or strangers, especially by means of a curtain:

purdah

Meaning a layer of something that covers something else:

covering

Meaning a thing which lies on, over, or around something, especially in order to protect or conceal it:

cover

Meaning a fixed or movable upright partition used to divide a room, give shelter from draughts, heat, or light, or to provide concealment or privacy:

screen

Meaning a broad piece of metal or another suitable material, held by straps or a handle attached on one side, used as a protection against blows or missiles:

shield

Meaning a piece of material suspended at the top to form a screen, typically movable sideways along a rail and found as one of a pair at a window:

curtain

Meaning a sheet, quantity, or thickness of material, typically one of several, covering a surface or body:

layer

Meaning a thin layer covering a surface:

film

Meaning a covering of a specified sort:

mantle

Meaning something serving to hide or disguise something:

cloak

Meaning a covering for all or part of the face, worn as a disguise, or to amuse or frighten others:

mask

Meaning a thick covering mass or layer:

blanket

Meaning a thing that envelops or obscures something:

shroud

Meaning an ornamental cloth covering hung or held up over something, especially a throne or bed:

canopy

Meaning a visible mass of condensed watery vapour floating in the atmosphere, typically high above the general level of the ground:

cloud

Meaning a thing that cannot be seen or heard clearly:

blur

Meaning a slight obscuration of the lower atmosphere, typically caused by fine suspended particles:

haze

Meaning a cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface that limits visibility (to a lesser extent than fog; strictly, with visibility remaining above 1 km):

mist

Meaning a dark cloud of smoke, dust, etc:

pall

Meaning wrap up, cover, or surround completely:

envelop

Meaning be all round (someone or something):

surround

Meaning a broad strip or area of something:

swathe

Meaning surround; envelop:

enfold

Meaning prevent (something) from being known; keep secret:

conceal

Meaning put or keep out of sight:

hide

Meaning (of a cell, gland, or organ) produce and discharge (a substance):

secrete

Meaning hide or disguise the presence of (a person, animal, or object) by means of camouflage:

camouflage, camouflaged

Meaning give (someone or oneself) a different appearance in order to conceal one's identity:

disguise

Meaning wrap; envelop:

enwrap

Meaning cover the surface of (something) with a coating:

overlay

Meaning keep from being seen; conceal:

obscure

Meaning screen from direct light:

shade

Meaning envelop in shadow; cast a shadow over:

shadow

Meaning obscure or block out (light):

eclipse

Meaning destroy utterly; wipe out:

obliterate

Meaning tower above and cast a shadow over:

overshadow

Meaning envelop completely and hide from view:

enshroud

Meaning cause to become dim:

bedim

Meaning make obscure or muddled:

becloud

Meaning make confused:

befog

Meaning darken or cover with or as if with a cloud; obscure:

obnubilate

Meaning not openly acknowledged or displayed:

covert

Meaning kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of:

surreptitious

Meaning past participle of hide1:

hidden

Meaning kept secret; hidden:

concealed

Meaning having changed one's appearance in order to conceal one's identity:

disguised

Meaning wearing a mask on all or part of the face:

masked

Meaning forcibly put an end to:

suppressed

Meaning present participle of underlie:

underlying

Meaning not revealed; secret:

unrevealed

Meaning suggested but not directly expressed; implicit:

implied

Meaning not directly caused by or resulting from something:

indirect

Meaning not clear or sharply defined:

indistinct

Meaning of uncertain, indefinite, or unclear character or meaning:

vague

Meaning not easy to see, hear, or understand:

unclear

veils antonyms

Meaning remove a veil or covering from, in particular uncover (a new monument or work of art) as part of a public ceremony:

unveil

Meaning make (something) visible by uncovering it:

expose

Meaning remove a cover or covering from:

uncover

Meaning done or shown openly; plainly apparent:

overt

Meaning (of bad behaviour) done openly and unashamedly:

blatant

Anagrams of veils

Elvis, elvis, evils, Levis, levis, lives, slive, vleis, vlies

Words that rhyme with veils

corbeils, ceils, deils, heils, envermeils, vermeils, Neils, speils, nonpareils, abseils, seils, steils, teils, overveils, surveils, unveils, weils

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