"cloud bank" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: cloud banks [plural], cloudbank [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} cloud bank (plural cloud banks)
  1. A wall of clouds, rising above horizon or observed from a distance, but not overhead. Categories (topical): Clouds, Weather Translations (a wall of clouds observed from a distance): nuvolada [feminine] (Catalan), pilvivalli (Finnish), barre de nuages [feminine] (French), skýjabakki [masculine] (Icelandic), mamaru (english: Referring to this phenomenon when dark in colour.) (Maori), rampa de nivols [feminine] (Occitan), гряда облаков (Russian), облачная гряда [feminine] (Russian), molnbank [common-gender] (Swedish)

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