shade

noun (DEGREE)

/ʃeɪd/

Definition

B2 [C] a type or degree of a colour: Their kitchen is painted an unusual shade of yellow/an unusual yellow shade. This hair colouring comes in several shades. The room has been decorated in pastel shades (= soft and light colours) throughout.Colour - general words › [C] something that is slightly different from other, similar things: They are hoping to satisfy all shades of public opinion. There are several shades of meaning in that sentence.Categories and varietiesSpecies and genders a shade C1 slightly: Don't you think those trousers are a shade too tight? The journey took us a shade over/under three hours. Our new car cost us a shade more/less than we were expecting it to.Some and quite shades of sth/sb informal › similarities with something or someone: I fancied there were shades of socialism in the way the school was run.Similar and the sameDescribing people with the same qualities › said to mean that something or someone makes you remember something or someone similar in the past: In his speech he said - shades of Martin Luther King Jr. - that he had a dream.Remembering, reminding and reminders

(Definition of shade noun (DEGREE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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