sky

Meaning

Noun

1. The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the surface of the Earth as the place where the sun, moon, stars, and clouds are seen.
2. With a descriptive word: the part of the sky which can be seen from a specific place or at a specific time; its climate, condition, etc.
3. (archaic, literary, poetic) Usually preceded by the: the abode of God or the gods, angels, the souls of deceased people, etc.; heaven; also, powers emanating from heaven.
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of sky blue.
5. The set of all lightlike lines (or directions) passing through a given point in space-time.
6. (informal, obsolete, rare) In an art gallery: the upper rows of pictures that cannot easily be seen; also, the place where such pictures are hung.
7. (obsolete) A cloud.

Verb

1. (informal, transitive) To drink (a beverage) from a container without one's lips touching the container.
2. (dated, informal, transitive) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen; (by extension) to put (something) in an undesirable place.
3. (dated, slang, transitive) To toss (something) upwards; specifically, to flip (a coin).
4. (transitive) To clear (a high jump bar, hurdle, etc.) by a large margin.
5. (transitive) To hit, kick, or throw (a ball) extremely high.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To raise (the price of an item on auction, or the level of the bids generally) by bidding high.
7. (intransitive) To move quickly, as if by flying; to fly; also, to escape, to flee (especially by airplane).
8. (intransitive) To hit, kick, or throw a ball extremely high.
9. (intransitive) To raise an oar too high above the water.

Opposite of

floor

Synonyms

heaven

firmament

heavens

atmosphere

air

weather

light

space

welkin

ether

horizon

skies

toss

pitch

flip

paradise

clear sky

empyrean

blue sky

cloud

☁️

shoot

shy

climate

high up

throw

universe

upper air

outer space

skim

sky-blue

steep

storm

thrust

thunder

🌩️

world

🗺️

year

Eden

Elysian Fields

Elysium

Heaven

Heavenly City

Shangri-la

up above

high-altitude sky

very high

empty air

City of God

part of the sky

starry-sky

azure curtain

Translations

ciel

Himmel

cielo

cielo

céu

hemel

ουρανός

caelum

cel

lucht

gök

Luft

سماء

firmamento

Pronounced as (IPA)

/skaɪ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: ski

Cognate with Old English: sċēo

Cognate with Middle English: skew

Cognate with Old English: scēo

Cognate with Old Saxon: scio

Cognate with Danish: -

Cognate with Swedish: -

Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål: sky

Cognate with Old Irish: ceo

Cognate with Irish: ceo

Cognate with Old English: scūa

Cognate with Latin: obscūrus

Cognate with Sanskrit: स्कुनाति

In summary

The noun is derived from Middle English sky (“sky; cloud; mist”), also spelled ski, skie, [and other forms], from Old Norse ský (“cloud”), from Proto-Germanic *skiwją (“cloud; sky”), from *skiwô (“cloud; cloud cover, haze; sky”) (whence Old English sċēo (“cloud”) and Middle English skew (“air; sky; (rare) cloud”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover; to conceal, hide”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
The English word is cognate with Old English scēo (“cloud”), Old Saxon scio, skio, skeo (“light cloud cover”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål sky (“cloud”), Old Irish ceo (“mist, fog”), Irish ceo (“mist, fog”). It is also related to Old English scūa (“shadow, darkness”), Latin obscūrus (“dark, shadowy”), Sanskrit स्कुनाति (skunāti, “he covers”). See also hide, hose, house, hut, shoe.

Sentences

Sometimes I wonder how there can be so many stars in the sky .

A child is looking through a pretend telescope on playground equipment in front of a blue sky .

The airplane rose gracefully into the sky .

The sun burned mercilessly from the sky .