nacreous cloud

1. 1.

   a luminous iridescent cloud at a high altitude that may be seen when the sun is a few degrees below the horizon

   Synonymsmother-of-pearl cloud

   Broadercloud

Questions about nacreous cloud

What does nacreous cloud mean?

nacreous cloud means "a luminous iridescent cloud at a high altitude that may be seen when the sun is a few degrees below the horizon".

What is another word for nacreous cloud?

Close synonyms include mother-of-pearl cloud. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nacreous cloud a common word?

nacreous cloud is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.