BLUE SKY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blue sky mean? 

• BLUE SKY (noun)
  The noun BLUE SKY has 1 sense:

1. the sky as viewed during daylight

  Familiarity information: BLUE SKY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLUE SKY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sky as viewed during daylight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

blue; blue air; blue sky; wild blue yonder

Context example:

he shot an arrow into the blue

Hypernyms ("blue sky" is a kind of...):

sky (the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth)

 Context examples 

In the middle of the heavens there was a little piece of blue sky, but towards the south all was red, as if a dreadful storm was rising.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Some dating Geminis will become engaged on this magical night and kiss under a deep blue sky filled with shooting stars.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

From above came one thin knife-edge of sunshine, and fifteen feet over our heads one saw the tops of the reeds swaying against the deep blue sky.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A blue sky often results from scattering of sunlight by very small particles.

(New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto, NASA)

April advanced to May: a bright serene May it was; days of blue sky, placid sunshine, and soft western or southern gales filled up its duration.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I lay at the bottom of the boat, and as I gazed on the cloudless blue sky, I seemed to drink in a tranquillity to which I had long been a stranger.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man’s energy.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It seemed as if a good view were no longer to be taken from the top of an high hill, and that a clear blue sky was no longer a proof of a fine day.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

They had been floating about all the morning, from gloomy St. Gingolf to sunny Montreux, with the Alps of Savoy on one side, Mont St. Bernard and the Dent du Midi on the other, pretty Vevay in the valley, and Lausanne upon the hill beyond, a cloudless blue sky overhead, and the bluer lake below, dotted with the picturesque boats that look like white-winged gulls.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

They gaily ascended the downs, rejoicing in their own penetration at every glimpse of blue sky; and when they caught in their faces the animating gales of a high south-westerly wind, they pitied the fears which had prevented their mother and Elinor from sharing such delightful sensations.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)