"nuée" meaning in French

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  "etymology_text": "From nue + -ée.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nuées",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "nuée f (plural nuées)",
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  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "thick cloud"
      ],
      "id": "en-nuée-fr-noun-0andscO5",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly formal or literary) thick cloud"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "formal",
        "literary"
      ]
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      "glosses": [
        "cloud (of arrows, insects)"
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        [
          "cloud",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
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        {
          "english": "All that could be heard were the weak, distant cries of a flock of migratory birds crossing the sky at an immense height.",
          "ref": "1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 13, in Les Misérables, Tome I : Fantine, book 2:",
          "text": "On n’entendait que les petits cris faibles d’une nuée d’oiseaux de passage qui traversaient le ciel à une hauteur immense.",
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        "horde, host, swarm (of people, birds, enemies etc.)"
      ],
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          "horde",
          "horde"
        ],
        [
          "host",
          "host"
        ],
        [
          "swarm",
          "swarm"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/nɥe/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nuée"
}

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    }
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  "etymology_text": "From nue + -ée.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nuées",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
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      ],
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        "thick cloud"
      ],
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        "(chiefly formal or literary) thick cloud"
      ],
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        "literary"
      ]
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        "cloud (of arrows, insects)"
      ],
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          "cloud"
        ]
      ],
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        "feminine"
      ]
    },
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      ],
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        {
          "english": "All that could be heard were the weak, distant cries of a flock of migratory birds crossing the sky at an immense height.",
          "ref": "1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 13, in Les Misérables, Tome I : Fantine, book 2:",
          "text": "On n’entendait que les petits cris faibles d’une nuée d’oiseaux de passage qui traversaient le ciel à une hauteur immense.",
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          "host",
          "host"
        ],
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          "swarm"
        ]
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        "feminine"
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    {
      "ipa": "/nɥe/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nuée"
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