Usually means: Atmosphere visible above the Earth.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. sky: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sky: Merriam-Webster
  3. sky: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sky: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sky: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sky: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sky, sky: Wordnik
  8. sky: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Sky, -sky, sky: Wiktionary
  10. sky: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sky: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sky: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sky: Dictionary.com
  14. sky: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sky: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SKY (keyboard layout), SKY (universities), SKY, Sky (Canadian band), Sky (Faye Wong album), Sky (Malaysian TV series), Sky (New Zealand), Sky (Sky album), Sky (TV serial), Sky (The Human League song), Sky (The Sarah Jane Adventures), Sky (UK & Ireland), Sky (UK and Ireland), Sky (US band), Sky (United Kingdom), Sky (band), Sky (cable company), Sky (company), Sky (disambiguation), Sky (film), Sky (hieroglyph), Sky (skyscraper), Sky (song), Sky (video game), Sky (video game player), Sky (video gamer), Sky, The Sky (album), The Sky (magazine), The sky: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sky: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sky: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sky: Rhymezone
  20. sky: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sky: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Sky: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. sky: FreeDictionary.org
  24. sky: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  25. sky: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. sky: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. sky: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sky: Dictionary of Symbolism

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sky: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SKY (spectral karyotype): MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. SKY (spectral karyotype): Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. SKY: Acronym Finder
  4. SKY: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. sky: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  2. sky: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  3. Weather Glossary (No longer online)
  4. SKY: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sky, sky, sky, sky, sky, sky: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sky (rocket): English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. The Sky, sky, the-sky: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mountain Bike Slang (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. sky: Golfer's Dictionary
  4. Sky: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See skied as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the surface of the Earth as the place where the sun, moon, stars, and clouds are seen.
noun:  With a descriptive word: the part of the sky which can be seen from a specific place or at a specific time; its climate, condition, etc.
noun:  (chiefly literary and poetic, archaic) Usually preceded by the: the abode of God or the gods, angels, the souls of deceased people, etc.; heaven; also, powers emanating from heaven.
noun:  (mathematics, theoretical physics) The set of all lightlike lines (or directions) passing through a given point in space-time.
noun:  (obsolete, informal, rare) In an art gallery: the upper rows of pictures that cannot easily be seen; also, the place where such pictures are hung.
noun:  (obsolete) A cloud.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  (informal) To drink (a beverage) from a container without one's lips touching the container.
verb:  (informal, dated) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen; (by extension) to put (something) in an undesirable place.
verb:  (slang, dated) To toss (something) upwards; specifically, to flip (a coin).
verb:  (sports)
verb:  To clear (a high jump bar, hurdle, etc.) by a large margin.
verb:  (ball games) To hit, kick, or throw (a ball) extremely high.
verb:  (obsolete) To raise (the price of an item on auction, or the level of the bids generally) by bidding high.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To move quickly, as if by flying; to fly; also, to escape, to flee (especially by airplane).
verb:  (ball games) To hit, kick, or throw a ball extremely high.
verb:  (rowing) To raise an oar too high above the water.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A unisex given name from English.
noun:  Ellipsis of sky blue. [A vibrant light blue colour, like that of the sky on a fine day.]
noun:  Obsolete form of Skye (“Scottish island”). [The largest island of the Inner Hebrides, in Highland council area, Scotland; the Isle of Skye.]

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