Cloud

What “Cloud” means

Noun

1. A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
2. Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
3. Anything reminiscent of a cloud.
4. Anything which makes things foggy, unclear or gloomy.
5. Anything unsubstantial.

Verb

1. To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
2. To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
3. Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
4. To make obscure.
5. To make less acute or perceptive.

Where the word comes from

From Middle English cloud, from Old English clūd (“mass of stone, rock, boulder, hill”), from Proto-West Germanic *klūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz, *klutaz (“lump, mass, conglomeration”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, clench”). Cognate with Scots clood, clud (“cloud”), Dutch kluit (“lump, mass, clod”), German Low German Kluut, Kluute (“lump, mass, ball”), German Kloß (“lump, ball, dumpling”), Danish klode (“sphere, orb, planet”), Swedish klot (“sphere, orb, ball, globe”), Icelandic klót (“knob on a sword's hilt”). Related to English clod, clot, clump, club. Largely replaced Middle English welkne, from Old English wolcn (whence English welkin), from Proto-Germanic *wulkną, the original Germanic word for cloud (compare Dutch wolk, German Wolke, North Frisian and West Frisian wolk).

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Industries where “Cloud” fits

We suggest this word for 6 business types and industries, including:

• Cloud Hosting Company
• SaaS Startup
• Vape Shop
• Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
• Software Publishers
• Tobacco Stores