cloud

CEFRA1

/ˈklaʊ̯d/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A white or gray mass in the sky made of tiny water drops.

  2. 02

    verb

    To make something difficult to see, understand, or remember.

Examples

  • A cloud of dust rose as the truck drove off.

  • There isn't a single cloud in the sky.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • [ˈkʰl̥æʊ̯d]
  • [ˈkʰl̥aʊ̯d]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.

  2. Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.

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

More examples

In context

  • There wasn't a cloud in the sky.

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

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

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English cloud, from Old English clūd (“mass of stone, rock, boulder, hill”), from Proto-West Germanic *klūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz, *klutaz (“lump, mass, conglomeration”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, clench”). Cognate with Scots clood, clud (“cloud”), Dutch kluit (“lump, mass, clod”), German Low German Kluut, Kluute (“lump, mass, ball”), German Kloß (“lump, ball, dumpling”), Danish klode (“sphere, orb, planet”), Swedish klot (“sphere, orb, ball, globe”), Icelandic klót (“knob on a sword's hilt”). Related to English clod, clot, clump, club. Largely replaced Middle English wolken, from Old English wolcn (whence Modern English welkin), the commonest Germanic...