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Antonyms for clouds

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : kloud
Phonetic Transcription : klaÊŠd

Definition of clouds

Origin :
  • Old English clud "mass of rock, hill," related to clod. Metaphoric extension to "raincloud, mass of evaporated water in the sky" is attested by c.1200 based on similarity of cumulus clouds and rock masses. The usual Old English word for "cloud" was weolcan. In Middle English, skie also originally meant "cloud."
  • The four fundamental types of cloud classification (cirrus, cumulus, stratus, nimbus) were proposed by British amateur meteorologist Luke Howard (1772-1864) in 1802. Figuratively, as something that casts a shadow, from early 15c.; hence under a cloud (c.1500). In the clouds "removed from earthly things; obscure, fanciful, unreal" is from 1640s. Cloud-compeller translates (poetically) Greek nephelegereta, a Homeric epithet of Zeus.
  • noun mass of water particles in air
  • noun crowd
  • verb become foggy or obscured
  • verb confuse
Example sentences :
  • The clouds are formed from the moisture present by the action of the sun's heat.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 » by Various
  • His eyes were turned the other way, and he sang to the clouds in the sky.
  • Extract from : « A Little Book of Profitable Tales » by Eugene Field
  • There had been a warm day, and the trees were clouds of green and more bushes had blossomed.
  • Extract from : « The Yates Pride » by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  • They were beyond the line of battle and were not obscured by the clouds of smoke.
  • Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • Clouds, heavy and menacing, already shrouded the whole west.
  • Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • The clouds of smoke enveloped them at times, and at other times floated away.
  • Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • The place, its sky and clouds and breezes, belonged to her: but she belonged to it as well.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • The tree-topped hills in their altitude are at times lost in the clouds.
  • Extract from : « The Hunted Outlaw » by Anonymous
  • Around us were opaque mountains of clouds with irradiated edges.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • Daylight had not yet succeeded in piercing through the night clouds.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

Synonyms for clouds

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