shadow play

1. 1.

   a drama executed by throwing shadows on a wall

   Synonymsgalanty showshadow show

   Broadershow

Questions about shadow play

What does shadow play mean?

shadow play means "a drama executed by throwing shadows on a wall".

What is another word for shadow play?

Close synonyms include galanty show, shadow show. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shadow play a common word?

shadow play is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.