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How to spell cloud
Cloud is spelled C-L-O-U-D.
What it means: A white or gray shape of tiny water drops in the sky.
In a sentence: The fluffy cloud floated across the blue sky.
Same family: cloudy, clouded, clouding, cloudiness, overcloud. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: The verb “cloud” comes from the noun “cloud,” which has Old English roots meaning a mass of rock or hill before it shifted to mean a mass in the sky. Over time, English speakers extended the idea to emotions and thoughts, so now feelings and judgment can also be ‘clouded’ like the sun behind clouds.
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