Cloud

/ˈklaʊ̯d/ · noun

Meaning

A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air..

Definitions by Sense

1. A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
2. Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
3. Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
4. (figurative) Anything unsubstantial.
5. A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
6. A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
7. An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
8. (telecommunications) A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings).

Example Sentences

While he thus ſpake, there came a cloud, and ouerſhadowed them, ⁊ they feared, as they entred into the cloude.

So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.

But in one part of the horizon a cloud lay, and the rulers of India were oppressed with a sense of coming disaster. This cloud had begun to form in 1873, and had been continually growing larger; it threw a shadow over gold-debtor nations, and shed a depressing influence over gold-using countries.

He opened the door and was greeted by a cloud of bats.

so great a cloud of witnesses

The place was horribly haunted by clouds of mosquitoes and every form of flying pest, so we were glad to find solid ground again and to make a circuit among the trees, which enabled us to outflank this pestilent morass, which droned like an organ in the distance, so loud was it with insect life.

The comic-book character's thoughts appeared in a cloud above his head.

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Word Forms

• clouds
• cloude
• clowd
• clouding
• clouded

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