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ciel

ciel is the alternative form of ceil.

Meaning of ceil

Verb (1)

ceil (third-person singular simple present ceils, present participle ceiling, simple past and past participle ceiled)

  1. (transitive) To line or finish (a surface, such as a wall), with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or similar.
    • It is nearly always old and bare, built of rough boards, and neither plastered nor ceiled.1903 June 1, W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois, “Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece”, in The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches, 2nd edition, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg &...

Verb (2)

ceil (third-person singular simple present ceils, present participle ceiling, simple past and past participle ceiled)

  1. To set a higher bound.

See all 3 meanings of ceil

Forms of ciel

third-person singular presentciels
present participlecieling
past participlecieled
pastcieled

Questions about ciel

What is ciel the alternative form of?
Ciel is the alternative form of ceil.

Words near ciel in the dictionary

  1. Ciecierega
  2. Ciecieregas
  3. CIED
  4. Cieding
  5. Ciego de Ávila
  6. ciel
  7. cieled
  8. cieling
  9. cielings
  10. Cielo
  11. Cielos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ciel (page history and authors); ceil (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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