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Definition of Shadower
1. Noun. A spy employed to follow someone and report their movements.
Definition of Shadower
1. Noun. One who shadows. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shadower
1. one that shadows [n -S] - See also: shadows
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shadower
Literary usage of Shadower
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1890)
"... and moreover, Mr Balfour was unable at the moment to state the exact distance
at which the Gladstonian " shadower " followed the "shadowed"! ..."
2. Autobiography of Seventy Years by George Frisbie Hoar (1905)
"Webster had been Everett's great over-shadower. Gov. Everett would have been,
but for him, the chief public man and the orator of Massachusetts at that time ..."
3. Autobiography of Seventy Years by George Frisbie Hoar (1903)
"Webster had been Everett's great over-shadower. Gov. Everett would have been,
but for him, the chief public man and the orator of Massachusetts at that time ..."
4. A Vagabond Journey Around the World: A Narrative of Personal Experience by Harry Alverson Franck (1911)
"This time, apparently, I had outwitted my shadower. I threw off my clothes and
plunged in for a swim. When I regained the bank, the spy, ..."
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