See also: skiés

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /skaɪz/
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  • Rhymes: -aɪz

Noun

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skies

  1. plural of sky though essentially synonymous with singular form; the heavens; the firmament; the atmosphere.
    • 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume I, page 23:
      "And as their valour, so you trow, defied
      on aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore,
      so many changing skies their manhood tried,
      such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar[.]"
    • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
      It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
  2. plural of skie.

Verb

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skies

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of sky

Etymology 2

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skies

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of ski

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French

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Verb

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skies

  1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of skier