Usually means: Cloud formation indicating rain nearby.
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  1. nimbus: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nimbus: Merriam-Webster
  3. nimbus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nimbus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nimbus: Collins English Dictionary
  6. nimbus: Vocabulary.com
  7. Nimbus, nimbus: Wordnik
  8. nimbus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. nimbus: Wiktionary
  10. nimbus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. nimbus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. nimbus: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. nimbus: Dictionary.com
  14. nimbus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Nimbus (British horse), Nimbus (Futurama), Nimbus (art), Nimbus (cipher), Nimbus (cloud computing), Nimbus (horse), Nimbus (literary magazine), Nimbus (motorcycle), Nimbus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Nimbus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. nimbus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. nimbus: Rhymezone
  19. Nimbus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. nimbus: FreeDictionary.org
  21. nimbus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. nimbus: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. nimbus: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nimbus: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nimbus (disambiguation), nimbus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. NIMBUS: Acronym Finder
  2. nimbus: A Word A Day

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nimbus: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nimbus: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See nimbi as well.)

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noun:  A circle of light; a halo.
noun:  A gray rain cloud.

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