Definitions for cloudklaʊd

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary


  1. a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usu. at an elevation above the earth's surface.

    Category: Meteorology



  4. anything that causes gloom, trouble, suspicion, etc.

  5. a great number of insects, birds, etc., flying together.

  6. (v.t.)to cover with or as if with a cloud or clouds.

  7. to make gloomy.

  8. to make obscure or indistinct; confuse:

    to cloud the issue with extraneous details.

  9. to reveal distress, anxiety, etc., in (a part of one's face):

    Worry clouded his brow.

  10. to place under suspicion, disgrace, etc.

  11. (v.i.)to grow cloudy.

  12. to reveal one's distress, anxiety, etc.:

    Her brow clouded with anger.

Idioms for cloud:

  1. have one's head in the clouds, to be lost in reverie; be daydreaming. to be impractical.

    Category: Idiom

  2. on a cloud,Informal. exceedingly happy; in high spirits.

    Category: Idiom, Informal

  3. under a cloud,in disgrace; under suspicion.

    Category: Idiom

Origin of cloud:

bef. 900; ME; OE clūd rock, hill; prob. akin to clod


Princeton's WordNet

  1. cloud(noun)


  2. cloud(noun)


  3. cloud(noun)

    out of touch with reality

    "his head was in the clouds"

  4. cloud(noun)

    a cause of worry or gloom or trouble


  5. cloud(noun)

    suspicion affecting your reputation

    "after that mistake he was under a cloud"

  6. swarm, cloud(verb)

    a group of many things in the air or on the ground

    "a swarm of insects obscured the light"; "clouds of blossoms"; "it discharged a cloud of spores"

  7. overcast, cloud(verb)

    make overcast or cloudy

    "Fall weather often overcasts our beaches"


    make less visible or unclear


  9. cloud(verb)

    billow up in the form of a cloud

    "The smoke clouded above the houses"

  10. cloud(verb)

    make gloomy or depressed

    "Their faces were clouded with sadness"

  11. defile, sully, corrupt, taint, cloud(verb)

    place under suspicion or cast doubt upon

    "sully someone's reputation"

  12. cloud(verb)

    make less clear

    "the stroke clouded memories of her youth"

  13. mottle, dapple, cloud(verb)

    colour with streaks or blotches of different shades

  14. cloud(verb)

    make milky or dull

    "The chemical clouded the liquid to which it was added"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. cloud(noun)ʊd

    a white mass in the sky

    rain clouds

  2. cloudʊd

    an amount of sth in the air

    a cloud of dust

  3. cloud(verb)ʊd

    to become dark and covered with clouds

    The sky had clouded over.

  4. cloudʊd

    to make sth complicated or confusing

    to cloud the issue; He allowed love to cloud his judgment.

  5. cloudʊd

    to make or become opaque

    His glasses clouded up in the steam.


  1. cloud(Noun)

    A rock; boulder; a hill.

  2. cloud(Noun)

    A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.

  3. cloud(Noun)


  4. cloud(Noun)

    Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.

  5. cloud(Noun)


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

  6. cloud(Noun)


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

  7. cloud(Noun)


  8. cloud(Noun)


  9. cloud(Noun)

    crystal methamphetamine

  10. cloud(Verb)

    To become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight.

  11. cloud(Verb)

    To make obscure (e.g. to cloud the issue).

  12. Origin: From cloud, cloude, clod, clud, clude, from clud, from klūtaz, from gel-. Cognate with cloud, clud, kluit, kluut, klute, kloot, Kloß, klode, klot, klót. Related to clod, clot.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Cloud(noun)

    a collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere

  2. Cloud(noun)

    a mass or volume of smoke, or flying dust, resembling vapor

  3. Cloud(noun)

    a dark vein or spot on a lighter material, as in marble; hence, a blemish or defect; as, a cloud upon one's reputation; a cloud on a title

  4. Cloud(noun)

    that which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of sorrow; a cloud of war; a cloud upon the intellect

  5. Cloud(noun)

    a great crowd or multitude; a vast collection

  6. Cloud(noun)

    a large, loosely-knitted scarf, worn by women about the head

  7. Cloud(verb)

    to overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds; as, the sky is clouded

  8. Cloud(verb)

    to darken or obscure, as if by hiding or enveloping with a cloud; hence, to render gloomy or sullen

  9. Cloud(verb)

    to blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish; to damage; -- esp. used of reputation or character

  10. Cloud(verb)

    to mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors; as, to cloud yarn

  11. Cloud(verb)

    to grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; -- often used with up


  1. Cloud

    In meteorology, a cloud is a visible mass of liquid droplets or frozen crystals made of water or various chemicals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of a planetary body. These suspended particles are also known as aerosols. Clouds in Earth's atmosphere are studied in the cloud physics branch of meteorology. Two processes, possibly acting together, can lead to air becoming saturated; cooling the air or adding water vapor to the air. In general, precipitation will fall to the surface; an exception is virga, which evaporates before reaching the surface. The international cloud classification system is based on the fact that clouds in their most basic forms can show free-convective upward growth like cumulus, appear in non-convective layered sheets such as stratus, or take the form of thin fibrous wisps, as in the case of cirrus. Prefixes are used in connection with clouds to express variations or complexities in these basic forms or to specify middle or high altitude ranges. These include strato- for low clouds with limited convection that form mostly in uneven layers, cumulo- for complex highly-convective storm clouds, nimbo- for thick layered clouds of some complexity that can produce moderate to heavy precipitation, alto- for middle clouds, and cirro- for high clouds; the latter two of which may be of simple or moderately complex structure. Whether or not a cloud is low, middle, or high level depends on how far above the ground its base forms. Cloud types with significant vertical extent can form in the low or middle altitude ranges depending on the moisture content of the air. Clouds in the troposphere have Latin names due to the popular adaptation of Luke Howard's cloud categorization system, which began to spread in popularity during December 1802. Synoptic surface weather observations use code numbers to record and report the types of tropospheric cloud visible at each scheduled observation time based on the height and physical appearance of the clouds.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'cloud' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4412

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'cloud' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4556

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'cloud' in Nouns Frequency: #1185

Translations for cloud

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary


a mass of tiny drops of water floating in the sky

white clouds in a blue sky; The hills were hidden in cloud.

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