nimbus

noun
/ˈnɪmbəs/US

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin nimbus (“dark cloud”). Doublet of nimb. Sense 2 (“grey rain cloud”) was coined by the British chemist and amateur meteorologist Luke Howard (1772–1864): see the 1803 quotation.

  1. learned borrowing from nimbus — “dark cloud

Definitions

  1. A circle of light

    A circle of light; a halo.

  2. A grey rain cloud.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nimbus. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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