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.
Noun 3 meanings
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.
“That year, a meteor fell from the sky.”
With a descriptive word: the part of the sky which can be seen from a specific place or at a specific time; its climate, condition, etc.
“I lay back under a warm Texas sky.”
The set of all lightlike lines (or directions) passing through a given point in space-time.
Verb 4 meanings
To drink (a beverage) from a container without one's lips touching the container.
To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen; (by extension) to put (something) in an undesirable place.
To clear (a high jump bar, hurdle, etc.) by a large margin.
To hit, kick, or throw (a ball) extremely high.
Etymology
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”).
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SKY at a glance
SKY has 3 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (S 1 + K 5 + Y 4) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,920 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with sky
All rhymes- RISKY12
- WHISKY19
- HUSKY15
- PESKY14
- DUSKY13
- FRISKY16
- SIKORSKY19
- MUSKY14
- ESKY11
- KOLINSKY19
- JANSKY20
- BOSKY14
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