nimbus

Other forms of nimbus

plural

nimbi

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.

Questions about nimbus

What does nimbus mean?

nimbus means "a dark grey cloud bearing rain". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nimbus?

nimbus has 2 syllables: nim-bus. The stress falls on "nim". In IPA it is /ˈnɪmbəs/.

What is another word for nimbus?

Close synonyms include nimbus cloud, rain cloud, aura, aureole, halo. 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 nimbus a common word?

nimbus is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.