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Sky Night Cloudless Skaɪ Blue Dark I Noun

Word sky
WordType (noun)
Phonetic BrE / skaɪ / NAmE / skaɪ /
Example
  • what's that in the sky?
  • the sky suddenly went dark and it started to rain.
  • the night sky
  • a cloudless sky
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sky

(noun)BrE / skaɪ / NAmE / skaɪ /
  1. the space above the earth that you can see when you look up, where clouds and the sun, moon and stars appear
    • What's that in the sky?
    • The sky suddenly went dark and it started to rain.
    • the night sky
    • a cloudless sky
    • cloudless skies
    • a land of blue skies and sunshine
    • The skies above London were ablaze with a spectacular firework display.
  2. used to refer to where a particular person is imagined to go when they die or a thing when it is no longer working, similar to the place they were connected with on earth
    • Their pet rabbit had gone to the great rabbit hutch in the sky.
  3. an event that somebody talks about that seems very unlikely to happen
    • This talk of moving to Australia is all just pie in the sky.
  4. to praise somebody/something a lot
  5. there is no limit to what somebody can achieve, earn, do, etc.
    • With a talent like his, the sky's the limit.

    Extra Examples

    • A strange object dropped out of the sky.
    • Astronomers scan the night skies for asteroids.
    • Black clouds spread across the sky.
    • Flocks of flamingoes fill the sky.
    • I opened my shutters and saw a brilliant blue sky.
    • My philosophy has always been to reach for the sky.
    • Some vintage aircraft will be taking to the skies at this weekend’s fair.
    • Swallows darted about in the sky overhead.
    • The afternoon sky turned orange.
    • The eagle was black against the early morning sky.
    • The fireworks lit up the sky.
    • The rain stopped and the skies cleared.
    • The skies opened and rain poured down.
    • The sky glows red with fire.
    • The sky was streaked with gold.
    • There was a kite high up in the sky.
    • We slept under the open sky.
    • a patch of blue sky
    • a ship tossing under a dark sky
    • a week of cloudless skies
    • alarmists who claim that the sky is falling
    • patrolling the skies over the Channel
    • the pale moon in the inky night sky
    • the vast desert skies
    • to patrol the skies over the Atlantic
    • when the sun is low in the sky
    • I had blue skies and sunshine nearly every day I was there.
    • Stars began to twinkle in the night sky.
    • We made our way home under a cloudless sky.
    • What’s that in the sky?

    Word Origin

    • Middle English (also in the plural denoting clouds), from Old Norse ský ‘cloud’. The verb dates from the early 19th cent.
Copyright This card's content is collected from the following dictionaries: Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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