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sky `noun` [ skʌɪ ]

• the region of the atmosphere and outer space seen from the earth.

• "hundreds of stars were shining in the sky"

Similar: the atmosphere, the stratosphere, the skies, airspace, the heavens, the firmament, the vault of heaven, the blue, the (wide) blue yonder, the welkin, the ether, the empyrean, the azure, the upper regions, the sphere,

sky `verb`

• hit (a ball) high into the air.

• "he skied his tee shot"

Origin: Middle English (also in the plural denoting clouds), from Old Norse ský ‘cloud’. The verb dates from the early 19th century.

the sky is the limit

• there is practically no limit (to something such as a price that can be charged or the opportunities afforded to someone).
"we can do anything—the sky's the limit"

to the skies

• very highly; enthusiastically.
"he wrote to his sister praising Lizzie to the skies"

under the open sky

• out of doors.
"an ancient Greek theatre under the open sky"

sky noun [ skʌɪ ]

sky verb

the sky is the limit

to the skies

under the open sky

sky `noun` [ skʌɪ ]

sky `verb`