Sky

Quick meaning: Sky is a noun meaning With a descriptive word: the part of the sky which can be seen from a specific place or at a specific time; its climate, condition, etc.

Meaning

With a descriptive word: the part of the sky which can be seen from a specific place or at a specific time; its climate, condition, etc.

More Meanings

1. Ellipsis of sky blue.
2. (mathematics, theoretical physics) The set of all lightlike lines (or directions) passing through a given point in space-time.
3. To drink (a beverage) from a container without one's lips touching the container.
4. The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the surface of the Earth as the place where the sun, moon, stars, and clouds are seen.
5. (obsolete) A cloud.
6. (chiefly literary and poetic, archaic) Usually preceded by the: the abode of God or the gods, angels, the souls of deceased people, etc.; heaven; also, powers emanating from heaven.
7. (obsolete, informal, rare) In an art gallery: the upper rows of pictures that cannot easily be seen; also, the place where such pictures are hung.

Example Sentences

That year, a meteor fell from the sky.

[A] Nobler Sir, ne're liu'd / 'Twixt sky and ground.

For beſides the groues, / The skyes, the fountaines, euery region neare / Seeme all one mutuall cry. I neuer heard / So muſicall a diſcord, ſuch ſweete thunder.

[T]he cunning Leach ordains / In Summer's Sultry Heats (for then it reigns) / To feed the Females, e're the Sun ariſe, / Or late at Night, when Stars adorn the Skies.

Word Forms

• skying
• skyed

Synonyms for sky

Depending on context, synonyms include firmament, heaven, lift, welkin, pitch, toss.

Antonyms for sky

Common opposites include floor.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include flip, toss, pitch, welkin, firmament, heaven.

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