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Word entry · 8 letters

cerulean

Best crossword clue

"Sky blue"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /səˈɹuːli.ən/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted aceelnruStarts with CEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Deep sky-blue color.

Word origin

From Latin caeruleus (“blue”) + -an, from caelum (“sky, heaven”) + -uleus (diminutive suffix).

Used in a sentence

  • For our blues we have the azures and ceruleans, lapis lazulis, the light and dusty, the powder blues, the deeps: royal, sapphire, navy, and marine […]
  • As far to the west as Monica could see, her world was a sea of fog, […]. Above it arched a cerulean sky; as the sun climbed to the zenith, […], the fog gradually took on a bluish tinge.
  • Oh Ramona, if there was only some kind of future / And these cerulean skies / Something in our skies, something in our skies

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