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cloud

Pronunciation: /kluːd/

“cloud” is a Middle English word. Its 5 meanings in English:

noun

  1. A cloud (mass of water vapour).
  2. The sky; the atmosphere.
  3. A small elevation; a hill.
  4. A clod, lump, or boulder.
  5. Something cloudy or which obscures or dims.

Etymology

From Old English clūd, from Proto-West Germanic *klūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz.

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