umbrage

Definitions


[ˈʌmbrɪdʒ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- offence or annoyance
(e.g: she took umbrage at his remarks)

- shade or shadow, especially as cast by trees


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (in umbrage): from Old French, from Latin umbra ‘shadow’. An early sense was ‘shadowy outline’, giving rise to ‘ground for suspicion’, whence the current notion of ‘offence’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries