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acloud

acloud adjective: made cloudy; clouded.

Adjective

acloud (not comparable)

  1. (poetic) Made cloudy; clouded.
    • Crystals clear or acloud with mist, / Ruby, garnet and amethyst1877, Sidney Lanier, Song of the Chattahoochee
    • One awoke of a morning to the twittering of birds, to walk to school amidst delicate, lace-like shadows of great trees acloud with old gold: the buds lay curled like tiny feathers on the pavements.1915, Winston Churchill, A Far Country

Origin of acloud

From a- + cloud.

Questions about acloud

What does acloud mean?
Acloud means made cloudy; clouded.
What part of speech is acloud?
Acloud is an adjective.

Words near acloud in the dictionary

  1. aclinical
  2. ACLJ
  3. aclonal
  4. aclopine
  5. aclopines
  6. acloud
  7. ACLR
  8. ACLS
  9. ACLU
  10. ACM
  11. ACMA

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