sky

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the space above the earth where you can see the sun, clouds, and stars

   There wasn't a single cloud in the bright blue sky.

2. 2
   noun

   the appearance or condition of the sky at a particular place or time

   I lay back under a warm Texas sky.

Common collocations

• clear sky Adjective + noun
• watch the sky Verb + noun
• cloudy sky Adjective + noun
• fill the sky Verb + noun
• starry sky Adjective + noun
• darken the sky Verb + noun
• scan the sky Verb + noun

The noun is derived from Middle English sky (“sky; cloud; mist”), also spelled ski, skie, [and other forms], from Old Norse ský (“cloud”), from Proto-Germanic *skiwją (“cloud; sky”), from *skiwô (“cloud; cloud cover, haze; sky”) (whence Old English sċēo (“cloud”) and Middle English skew (“air; sky; (rare) cloud”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover; to conceal, hide”). Partly displaced Old English heofon, which survives in the reflex heaven, still sometimes used in the sense of sky, but usually in high or poetic register. The verb is derived from the noun. Cognates The English word…

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