Definitions for Sky

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Sky sky

Spelling: [skahy]

IPA: /skaɪ/

Sky is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 9 anagrams from letters in Sky (ksy).

Definitions for Sky

noun

1. the region of the clouds or the upper air; the upper atmosphere of the earth:
2. the heavens or firmament, appearing as a great arch or vault.
3. the supernal or celestial heaven:
4. the climate:
5. Obsolete. a cloud.

Idioms

1. out of a / the clear sky, without advance notice or warning; abruptly: Also, out of a/the clear blue sky.
2. to the skies, with lavishness or enthusiasm; extravagantly: Also, to the sky.

Verb phrases

1. sky up, Falconry. (of prey, when flushed) to fly straight upward.

verb (used with object)

1. Informal. to raise, throw, or hit aloft or into the air.
2. Informal. to hang (a painting) high on a wall, above the line of vision.

Origin of Sky

1175-1225; Middle English Old Norse skȳ cloud, cognate with Old English scēo cloud

Examples for Sky

They were fabled as seven sisters, and one lost her place in the sky by marrying a mortal.

She was a widow, and had loved her husband, and her sky was still tinged with grey.

Especially not when the display in question includes an angel falling from the sky in flames, surrounded by Biblical verses.

Rob Marshall lets a sigh of relief erupt so loud it could be heard by giants in the sky.

He went on until the sun was low in the west and all the sky was rimmed with color.

They made maps of the sky and they discovered the first five planets.

“At least it keeps the mosquitoes away,” one of my table-mates said, as we watched the swooshes of smoke waft into the Havana sky.

Where these laser-like missiles are falling out of the sky onto a city and you have to stop each of them from hitting the targets?

Oceans and land and sky are avenues for our colossal commerce.

The sky is not the limit; beliefs still must be sincere and connected to some for-real source.