para-solとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈpæɹəˌsɒl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈpɛɹəˌsɑl/

名詞

parasol (plural parasols)

1. A small light umbrella used as protection from the sun.
2. A miniature paper umbrella used as a decoration in tropical-themed cocktails.
3. A sun umbrella for garden use etc., mounted on a stand; these can be foldable and demountable.
4. (architecture) A roof or covering of a structure designed to provide cover from wind, rain, or sun.
5. Any of various Asian species of libellulid dragonfly of the genus Neurothemis.
6. A parasol mushroom (Macrolepiota procera)

同意語

• (umbrella used for protection against the sun): sunshade, sun umbrella; beach umbrella (often large); chatta (India); chatra (royal & religious symbol in South & East Asia)

下位語

• (umbrella used for protection against the sun): umbrella

派生語

動詞

parasol (third-person singular simple present parasols, present participle (US) parasoling or (UK) parasolling, simple past and past participle (US) parasoled or (UK) parasolled)

1. (transitive) To protect with, or as if with, a parasol; to shade.
   • 1826, The Monthly Magazine, page 161:

     Now old ladies, who dare venture a-shopping, go parasolling their withered perfections along, and entertain a decided dread of injuring the immaterial whiteness of their skins, which have ceased to he compared to "lilies" and "snows," and other sonnet-like similes, for more than thirty summers […]

   • 2013, Geoff Ryman, The King's Last Song, page 19:

     […] the buffaloes in the mire, and rows of trees parasolling houses along the waterways.

アナグラム

• Rapalos