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sky — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • cloud noun A visible mass of water droplets floating in the sky.
  • eschew verb To deliberately avoid or keep away from something, usually on moral or practical grounds.
  • heaven noun In many religions, the place where God, gods, or the blessed dead are believed to dwell.
  • ostracize verb To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
  • shun verb To deliberately avoid someone or something, often as a form of social rejection.
  • sky noun The space above the earth where clouds, the sun, and stars appear.

Senses

sky is used for these senses in English:

  • eschew (transitive, formal) To avoid; to shun, to shy away from.
  • heaven The sky, specifically:
  • ostracize (by extension) To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun. [from mid 17th c.]
  • shun (transitive) To avoid, especially persistently; ostracize.
  • sky The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the surface of the Earth as the place where the sun, moon, stars, and clouds are seen.

cloud — full definition

  1. noun A visible mass of water droplets floating in the sky.
  2. noun A mass of dust, smoke, or similar particles hanging in the air.
  3. noun Remote internet-based computing and storage, thought of as an abstract space rather than a physical machine.
  4. verb To make something unclear, gloomy, or hard to see or think about.

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