Polyglot Dictionary

tinieblas

/tiˈnjeβlas/

la noun C1

el (masc.) la (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Academic Domain General Tone Neutral

Meaning

  1. darkness

    • Vivió en las tinieblas.

      He lived in darkness.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

oscuridad

tinieblas is more literary or biblical, an ominous deep darkness; oscuridad is the everyday word for "darkness."

Similar in other languages

German

Dunkelheit

Dunkelheit is the German word for the same thing — both mean "darkness."

Portuguese

escuridão

escuridão is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "darkness."

Practice

1 What does tinieblas mean?

2 Fill the gap: Vivió en las ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches tinieblas?

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