sky
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1.0
- noun
- /skaɪ/
:
cielo
- On a clear day, the sky is often a brilliant shade of blue.
- blue sky
- night sky
- clear skies
Second day he separates the sky from the sea.
- Second day he separates the sky from the sea.
- And don't forget we always look at the same sky, the same stars.
- You can look at the sky, beautiful, vast blue.
- And it was like the the light coming from the sky beaming on him.
- You, you walk outside, there's the sky, it's blue.
- Slow drips and light shower, flat metallic sky and sombre limbs.
- It was not a single cloud in the sky, pure blue skies, sunny.
- Every coordinate we have for objects in the sky have a date.
Examples
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And at night, the sky is just incredible.
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At that moment, look up to the sky, smile and ask for more.
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Instead of a yellow, brown sky, it's kind of blue.
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It's as bright as the sky is blue.
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I love the line between the sky and the water.
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In the spring night, under the white sky, the house was dark and still.
Fiction book (1990) -
The world would have looked to the sky and seen hope, seen mercy.
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The sun was dropping low in the sky now, and the air was still.
Fiction book (1990) -
Linda had left Pennsylvania under a sky as smooth and blue as her made bed.
Fiction book (1990) -
Clouds and sun reflect brilliance on each other; sky and water are equally pure and fresh.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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9.9
The sky above the earth that people imagine as a wide dome with stars
4
1.4
The sky seen as a wide space with the sun, moon, and stars
Antonyms
Idioms
A slang name for the drug LSD that makes people see things that are not real
A joking idea that deleted digital files are gone forever
Compounds
- UK
1
6.3
A police officer who travels secretly on planes to protect passengers from hijackers
- Specialized
1
6.9
Bright light in the night sky above towns from man-made lights that hides stars
- Formal
A state law that controls the sale of stocks and other investments to protect people from scams
- NSFW
A Tibetan funeral where people leave a dead body on a mountain for vultures to eat
- Specialized
A radio wave that bounces off the high air layer or a satellite back to the ground to travel far
How High
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sky comes from an old Norse word ský meaning 'cloud'. People began to use that word for the whole space above the earth, so sky now means the open area of air and space over us.