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storm-cloud

storm-cloud is the dated form of storm cloud.

Meaning of storm cloud

Noun

storm cloud (plural storm clouds)

  1. A dark and ominous cloud that appears to indicate a coming storm.
    • Uncertainty hangs over the industry like a storm cloud on a summer's day, preventing long-term planning and investment.2023 March 8, Christian Wolmar, “Labour passes up the chance to deliver a forceful rail policy”, in RAIL, number 978, page 35
  2. (broadly, figuratively) A sign that serious trouble, conflict, or misfortune is approaching.

Forms of storm-cloud

pluralstorm-clouds

Questions about storm-cloud

What is storm-cloud the dated form of?
Storm-cloud is the dated form of storm cloud.

Words near storm-cloud in the dictionary

  1. storm-bird
  2. storm-birds
  3. storm-blast
  4. storm-chaser
  5. storm-chasers
  6. storm-cloud
  7. storm-clouded
  8. storm-clouds
  9. storm-door
  10. storm-doors
  11. storm-hunter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: storm-cloud (page history and authors); storm cloud (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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