cloud
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- noun
- /klaʊd/
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- Above me, the sky was pale gray, full of clouds, and it smelled like rain.
- cloud cover
- dark clouds
- a cloud in the sky
We've got some lofty clouds and blue skies, right?
- We've got some lofty clouds and blue skies, right?
- So around that scroll, these clouds, dark clouds started to build.
- But it's all in the cloud droplet form.
- They're all like clouds passing through the sky.
- Do you know what happens with clouds and they bump into each other?
- It's because clouds float around in the sky.
- Transparent clouds pause and rest on the rises.
- Mayor, is that cloud as big as the world?
Examples
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The clouds are a blanket pulled over your head.
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As we made our way up a narrow valley, thick clouds settled in and dampened everything.
Academic text (2011) -
Among them, you would be like the moon in the middle of a big white cloud...
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The plane breaks out above the clouds into dazzling blue sky and bright sun.
Fiction book (1990) -
But then, a small, billowy white cloud with a dark center materialized overhead.
Academic text (2011) -
We've got some lofty clouds and blue skies, right?
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With dark clouds on the horizon, high humidity and thunderstorms on the way...
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The sun is out in full blast and blue-bellied clouds are massing over the mountains.
Academic text (2008) -
The latest satellite picture shows a band of clouds stretching over the Mid-Atlantic States.
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As we made our way up a narrow valley, thick clouds settled in and dampened everything.
Synonyms
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A dark, heavy cloud that shows rain or a storm is coming
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4.9
A white fluffy cloud with a flat base that forms low in the sky
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1.0
A dark grey cloud that brings rain
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3.9
A large white fluffy cloud with a rounded top and flat base often seen in fair weather
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2.5
A large dark cloud that brings thunder, lightning, and heavy rain
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5.9
A low gray cloud that forms a flat sheet and often blocks the sun
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3.8
A thin, high cloud made of tiny bits of ice that looks like white streaks in the sky
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3.9
A long, flat group of clouds seen from a distance
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7.9
A low, thick cloud made of lumpy patches that often covers the sky
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8.6
A white or gray cloud that looks like small rounded patches at medium height in the sky
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7.2
A thin misty cloud that looks soft and dreamlike
A low, flat gray cloud layer that often covers the sky and brings light drizzle
White or gray rounded cloud patches in the middle sky
A gray or blue cloud layer in the middle sky that often covers most of it and brings light rain
A thin, high cloud layer that often covers the sky and sometimes makes a halo around the sun or moon
High white clouds that look like small ripples or patches in rows across the sky
A small, thin white cloud high in the sky that looks like tiny ripples
A high cloud that looks shiny with rainbow colors around sunrise or after sunset
Antonyms
Idioms
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Make someone unable to think clearly because of strong feelings or outside pressure
Compounds
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A large white fluffy cloud with a rounded top and flat base often seen in fair weather
- Specialized
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3.8
A thin, high cloud made of tiny bits of ice that looks like white streaks in the sky
- Specialized
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9.4
One of two small irregular galaxies near the Milky Way visible from the Southern Hemisphere
- Informal
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9.9
An imaginary place where people are out of touch with reality because they are too optimistic
- Specialized
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4.8
A very tall dark cloud that brings heavy rain, thunder, and lightning
- Specialized
1
9.9
A distant shell around the solar system filled with small icy objects that send comets toward the Sun
- Specialized
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7.5
A device that shows the paths of tiny invisible particles as thin white streaks in a mist
- Specialized
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8.8
A nearby irregular galaxy visible from the southern sky that orbits the Milky Way
- Specialized
A small, thin white cloud high in the sky that looks like tiny ripples
- Specialized
A thin, high cloud layer that often covers the sky and sometimes makes a halo around the sun or moon
- Specialized
A gray or blue cloud layer in the middle sky that often covers most of it and brings light rain
A high cloud that looks shiny with rainbow colors around sunrise or after sunset
A large cloud shaped like a mushroom that rises after a powerful explosion
- Specialized
A small irregular galaxy near the Milky Way that you can see from the Southern Hemisphere
- Specialized
A low, flat gray cloud layer that often covers the sky and brings light drizzle
- Specialized
A device that makes vapor tracks to show where tiny charged particles move
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cloud comes from an old English word clud meaning 'rock' or 'lump', and is related to the English word clod ('a lump of earth'). People imagined clouds as big lumps in the sky, which is why cloud now names the soft mass of water or ice high above the ground.