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omber

omber is the alternative spelling of ombre.

Meaning of ombre

Noun (1)

ombre (uncountable)

  1. A Spanish card game, usually played by three people. It involves forty cards, omitting the ranks of 8, 9 and 10.
    • Belinda now, whom chirst of fame invites, / Burns to encounter two advent'rous Knights, / At Ombre singly to decide their doom / And swells her breast with conquests yet to com1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, canto

Noun (2)

ombre (plural ombres)

  1. (archaic) A large Mediterranean food fish, Umbrina cirrosa.
    Synonyms:
    umbra, umbrine, drum, drumfish, shi drum, gurbell, sea crow, bearded umbrine, corb

Questions about omber

What is omber the alternative spelling of?
Omber is the alternative spelling of ombre.

Words near omber in the dictionary

  1. Omayyads
  2. OMB
  3. Ombamba
  4. oMBD
  5. oMBDs
  6. omber
  7. Ombersley
  8. ombiasy
  9. ombibulous
  10. ombitasvir
  11. ombliferous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: omber (page history and authors); ombre (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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