nimbus.
A circle of light; a halo.
Meaning & usage
A circle of light; a halo.
A grey rain cloud.
Where this word comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin nimbus (“dark cloud”). Doublet of nimb. Sense 2 (“grey rain cloud”) was coined by the British chemist and amateur meteorologist Luke Howard (1772–1864): see the 1803 quotation.
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