Definition of "umbrage" in английский

noun

1. A feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive.

   • Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur.

2. A feeling of doubt.

3. Leaves that provide shade, as the foliage of trees.

4. (obsolete) Shadow; shade.

verb

1. (transitive) To displease or cause offense.

2. (transitive) To shade.