nimbus
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nimbus
- /ˈnɪmbəs/ US, UK
Rhymes with -ɪmbəs
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin nimbus (“dark cloud”). Doublet of nimb.
Sense 2 (“grey rain cloud”) was coined by the British chemist and amateur meteorologist Luke Howard (1772–1864): see the 1803 quotation.
noun nimbi · nimbuses
- A circle of light; a halo.
- A grey rain cloud. [pages 99–100] Cumulo-cirro-stratus vel Nimbus. […] The rain cloud. A cloud or system of clouds from which rain is falling. It is a horizontal sheet, above which the cirrus spreads, while the cumulus enters it laterally and from beneath. […] [page 107] The nimbus, although in itself one of the least
