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Definition of "cloudlet" [cloud•let]

  • A small cloud or something resembling one. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "cloudlet" in a sentence
  • "“Like this, a cloudlet, only stuffed with fur, with furthers?”"
  • "An unbroken blue flooding the whole sky; a single cloudlet upon it, half floating, half fading away."
  • "In the midst of the cloudlet in question there was a bloody point so small that it disappeared during the contraction and escaped the sight, but in the relaxation it reappeared again, red and like the point of a pin; so that betwixt the visible and invisible, betwixt being and not being, as it were, it gave by its pulses a kind of representation of the commencement of life."