Definitions for skies

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skies skies

Spelling: [skahyz]

IPA: /skaɪz/

Skies is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in skies (eikss).

Definitions for skies

noun

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

verb

1. 3rd person singular present of sky.

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 skies

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

Examples for skies

Why not live nobly and idly in the most beautiful of cities, under the most beautiful of skies?

Neptune took the ocean, Pluto the center of the earth, and Jupiter the skies.

It was a high-tech attempt to smuggle in drugs and phones from the skies over a maximum-security facility.

But, for want of a form of words in which to express the idea, it returned to the skies.

Descriptions of armed soldiers and strange beasts galloping across the skies were not uncommon.

We know that the skies are open season for all manner of drone traffic, from missile launchers to beer droppers.

Every night, they emerge from their roosts, taking to the skies on silent wings.

Then the lightning ceased for a while and the skies were almost dark.

The crime-fighting penguins, says the trailer, are “masters of the skies, espionage, and aerial assault.”

Commerce crowds our rivers and rails, our skies, harbors, and highways.