cloudlet

[ kloud-lit ]

noun
  1. a small cloud.

Origin of cloudlet

1
First recorded in 1780–90; cloud + -let

Words Nearby cloudlet

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How to use cloudlet in a sentence

  • An unbroken blue flooding the whole sky; a single cloudlet upon it, half floating, half fading away.

  • Far down the line shone a cloudlet of white smoke and the gleam of brass through the dust.

    Tommy Wideawake | H. H. Bashford
  • Not a leaf the less on the ground, not a cloudlet in the sky.

    The Bird | Jules Michelet
  • She spoke, once more smiling, through the little cloudlet of steam.

    The Tower of Oblivion | Oliver Onions
  • Claws became interlocked, and they fell each with distended crest, like a gilt-edged cloudlet following the setting sun.

    Tropic Days | E. J. Banfield

British Dictionary definitions for cloudlet

cloudlet

/ (ˈklaʊdlɪt) /


noun
  1. a small cloud

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