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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Then there’s the ocean merging with the western clouds.—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2025 The resulting clouds can act as insulating layers in the atmosphere, often helping to reduce surface temperatures and also the extent of sea ice coverage around Antarctica.—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 24 May 2025
Verb
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Despite a slowdown in sales, national home prices aren’t falling.—Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 22 May 2025 But context, memory or prior actions can cloud our judgment.—Nuala Walsh, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for cloud
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Etymology
Noun
Middle English, rock, cloud, from Old English clūd; perhaps akin to Greek gloutos buttock
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