Noun
The sun is shining and there's not a cloud in the sky.
flying high above the clouds
It stopped raining and the sun poked through the clouds.
a cloud of cigarette smoke
The team has been under a cloud since its members were caught cheating.
There's a cloud of controversy hanging over the election. Verb
greed clouding the minds of men
These new ideas only cloud the issue further.
The final years of her life were clouded by illness.
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Even the most media-stringent parents get submerged by elementary school in a nebulous cloud.—Kendra Thomas, TIME, 5 June 2024 The upshot of this cold atom trap is to create ultrasensitive quantum conditions among the whole aggregation of atoms, which is then a big enough cloud of matter to be able to be manipulated with standard laboratory equipment.—IEEE Spectrum, 3 June 2024
Verb
Weather Underground is predicting showers that may cloud some festivities in the morning and high temperatures around 76 with low temperatures around 61.—Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 18 May 2024 For all their efforts to meticulously document, the ethnographers' assumptions about the island and its people cloud their depictions from the start.—Kristen Martin, NPR, 16 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for cloud
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Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, rock, cloud, from Old English clūd; perhaps akin to Greek gloutos buttock
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