Definitions for Nimbus

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Nimbus nim·bus

Spelling: [nim-buh s]

IPA: /ˈnɪm bəs/

Nimbus is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in Nimbus (bimnsu).

Definitions for Nimbus

noun

1. Classical Mythology. a shining cloud sometimes surrounding a deity when on earth.
2. a cloud, aura, atmosphere, etc., surrounding a person or thing:
3. halo (def 1).
4. the type of dense clouds or cloud mass with ragged edges, that yields rain or snow; a rain cloud.
5. (initial capital letter) U.S. Aerospace. one of a series of polar-orbiting meteorological and environmental research satellites, the last of which Nimbus 7, launched 1978, was the first satellite designed to monitor atmospheric pollutants.

Origin of Nimbus

1610-20; Latin: a rainstorm, rain cloud, thundercloud, cloud; akin to Latin nebula and Greek nephélē, néphos cloud

Examples for Nimbus

As journalists report bolder acts by the renegades, nimbus and his friends are forced to move further from childhood innocence.

The gas-lights have no heart in them, and each wears a nimbus.

The nimbus of the saint in his eyes, was associated with the crown of martyrdom.

It wears a crown, and a glory of daggers is the nimbus about its head!

Golden tresses like a nimbus of glory adorned her queenly head.

Moreover these figures in Yucatan have a nimbus too, just like the Buddhas.

Above is a nimbus of clouds, and above the nimbus, the weighing of souls.

It was like a thunderbolt in a nimbus—the rush of Flagg down the mountain.

A sword—a crown—the nimbus of a saint: imagination might play untrammelled.

He puffed quietly until his head was surrounded by a nimbus of smoke.