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SKY BLUE

Definition: SKY BLUE

SKY BLUE

1. An azure color.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Specialty Definition: SKY BLUE

DomainDefinition

Slang in 1811

BLUE TAPE, or SKY BLUE. Gin.
SKY BLUE. Gin. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: SKY BLUE

Synonym by domain: sky-blue (european union, chemical industry).

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Crosswords: SKY BLUE

English words defined with "SKY BLUE": blue poppyGirasole GirasolMeconopsis betonicifolia. (references)
Specialty definitions using "SKY BLUE": BLUE TAPE. (references)

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Modern Usage: SKY BLUE

DomainUsage

Lyrics

We've got to change our point of view, if we want the sky blue (Where's The Love; performing artist: Hanson)

Movie/TV Titles

Land of the Sky Blue Daughters (1930)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: SKY BLUE

DomainTitle

Books

  • My Sky Blue Trades: Growing Up Counter in a Contrary Time (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: SKY BLUE

Photos:
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Non-Fiction Usage: SKY BLUE

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Luxembourg

Flag: Three horizontal stripes--red, white, and sky blue. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SKY BLUE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sky blue

238

why is the sky blue

179

sky blue vodka

8

deep sky blue

3

sky blue aster

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SKY BLUE

Language Translations for "SKY BLUE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

kaltërsi (azure), i kaltër (azure, blue, cyanic, skyey). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏أزرق (blue). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

небесносин цвят, небесносин (azure, cerulean, skyey), лазурен (azure, blue, liquid), лазур (azure). (various references)

   

Czech

  

blankytný (azure). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

lazuur (glaze, lapis-lazuli), lazuren, hemelsblauw (cerulean blue, coelin blue), azuur (cerulean blue, coelin blue), azuren. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

lazuro, lazura, ĉielbluo, ĉielblua. (various references)

   

French

  

azur. (various references)

   

German

  

himmelblau (azure). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ουρανόχρουσ (azure). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

égszínkék (azure, cerulean, turquoise, welkin). (various references)

   

Italian

  

azzurro (azure, blue, sky). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

スエズ運河 (multistory parking garage, scarf, scarlet, scenic mountain road, scout, skirt, sky, sky mate, sky restaurant, skydiver, skydiving, skyjack, Skylab, sky-laboratory, skylark, skylight, skyline, skyscraper, squash, student discount air ticket, Suez Canal, sweat). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

スカイブルー . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

yskay ueblay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

błękitny. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

azul-celeste (azure). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

albastru (azure, blue, sapphirine). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

небесно - голубой (skyblue), лазурь (azure), лазурный (azure). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nebesko plavetnilo, nebeski plavetan. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

azul (blue, treasury). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

himmelsblå (azure). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

gök mavisi (azure, azure blue, cerulean). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

лазуровий (azure), блакитний (azure, blue). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SKY BLUE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-k-l-s-u-y"

-1 letter: bluesy, blueys.

-2 letters: blues, bluey, bulks, bulky, lubes, sulky, yelks, yeuks, yules.

-3 letters: bels, beys, blue, bulk, busk, busy, buys, byes, elks, keys, kues, leks, leku, leys, lube, lues, lyes, lyse, slub, slue, sulk, syke, ukes, yelk, yeuk, yuks, yule.

-4 letters: bel, bey, bus, buy, bye, bys, elk, els, key, kue, lek, leu, ley.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-k-l-s-u-y"
 

+4 letters: unspeakably.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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