somber

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somber (comparative somberer, superlative somberest)

1. US standard spelling of sombre.
   • 2002, Dirk Wittenborn, Fierce People:

     My mother prepared herself for the evening with the same somber deliberateness of the gladiators in Spartacus.

somber (third-person singular simple present sombers, present participle sombering, simple past and past participle sombered)

1. US standard spelling of sombre.

• somber in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• somber in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• bromes, ombres, sombre

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somber (comparative somberder, superlative somberst)

1. somber (US), sombre (Commonwealth)

• somberaar
• somberen
• somberheid
• sombermans