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say it: klowd
cloud is a verb and noun meaning "make overcast or cloudy". It carries 14 recorded senses.
any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible
a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude
a cause of worry or gloom or trouble
“the only cloud on the horizon was the possibility of dissent by the French”
a group of many things in the air or on the ground
“a swarm of insects obscured the light”
“clouds of blossoms”
“it discharged a cloud of spores”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cloud come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.