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Definition of Cloudlike
1. Adjective. Resembling a cloud.
Definition of Cloudlike
1. Adjective. Resembling a cloud or clouds; thus, often, fluffy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cloudlike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloudlike
Literary usage of Cloudlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1902)
"This conclusion is derived from the observation of the relatively small cloudlike
masses lying in the upper regions of the planet's atmosphere. ..."
2. A Thousand Days in the Arctic by Frederick George Jackson (1899)
"10 PM A few cloudlike and serpentine-shaped auroral patches and bands in zenith,
... 8 PM cloudlike streaks and patches of auroral light in SE, S., and SW, ..."
3. Astronomy by Joseph Norman Lockyer (1874)
"Nor is this all: not only have we cloudlike masses which may be broken up into
stars, and cloudlike masses which we know cannot consist of true stars, ..."
4. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1901)
"The Milky Way would be uniformly illumined, but it is not, being a chain of
irregular, cloudlike aggregations of stars. Professor NEWCOMB then enters into a ..."
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