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cloudbank

cloudbank is the alternative form of cloud bank.

Meaning of cloud bank

Noun

cloud bank (plural cloud banks)

  1. A wall of clouds, rising above horizon or observed from a distance, but not overhead.
    • The hills were slate under the stacks of black cloudbank.1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 6

Forms of cloudbank

pluralcloudbanks

Questions about cloudbank

What is cloudbank the alternative form of?
Cloudbank is the alternative form of cloud bank.

Words near cloudbank in the dictionary

  1. cloud-ridden
  2. cloud-seeding
  3. cloud-to-ground
  4. clouda
  5. cloudage
  6. cloudbank
  7. cloudbanks
  8. cloudbase
  9. cloudbases
  10. cloudberries
  11. cloudberry

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