skies
See also: skiés
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skaɪz/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪz
Noun
skies
- plural of sky though essentially synonymous with singular form; the heavens; the firmament; the atmosphere.
- 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume I, page 23:
- "And as their valour, so you trow, defied
on aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore,
so many changing skies their manhood tried,
such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar[.]"
- 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
- It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
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- plural of skie.
Verb
skies
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sky
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skiːz/
Verb
skies
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ski
Anagrams
- Kises, Sikes, kisse, sikes
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
skies
- second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of skier