Word.ws English Dictionary

skysill

/ˈskaɪˌsɪl/

skysill noun: horizon.

Noun

skysill (plural skysills)

  1. (nonstandard, poetic, rare) Horizon.
    • When the sun sinks below the skysill (his word for horizon) there is most often in England the gloom of mistiness.1960, William Turner Levy, William Barnes: the man and the poems
    • Rooftops stagger the skysill. Clouds coast from nowhere to Nowhere as row upon row below Planetrees shuttle the moted Air.1992, International Poetry Society, Orbis: Issues 84–87

Forms of skysill

pluralskysills
alternative formsky-sill

Origin of skysill

From sky + sill.

Questions about skysill

What does skysill mean?
Skysill means horizon.
What part of speech is skysill?
Skysill is a noun.
How do you pronounce skysill?
Skysill is pronounced /ˈskaɪˌsɪl/.
What is the plural of skysill?
The plural of skysill is skysills.

Words near skysill in the dictionary

  1. skyscraperless
  2. skyscrapers
  3. skyscraping
  4. skyship
  5. skyships
  6. skysill
  7. skysills
  8. skyspace
  9. skyspaces
  10. skysphere
  11. skyspheres

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: skysill (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-skysill.wav.

Cite this entry: “skysill.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/skysill. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.