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.
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Noun
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.—Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 7 June 2025 Banks should use a hybrid strategy in which IoT data is handled both on edge and in centralized cloud systems to meet these obstacles.—Kalyan Gottipati, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
Verb
With the haze of inexplicable death clouding every sequence, The Virgin Suicides reset the barometric pressure of teen movies.—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 6 June 2025 Not 20/20 hindsight, mind you, but hindsight clouded by ideology, partisan politics and persistent ignorance.—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for cloud
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, rock, cloud, from Old English clūd; perhaps akin to Greek gloutos buttock
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