- a shining cloud sometimes surrounding a deity when on earth.
- a cloud, aura, atmosphere, etc., surrounding a person or thing: The candidate was encompassed with a nimbus of fame.
- halo (def. 1).
- the type of dense clouds or cloud mass with ragged edges, that yields rain or snow; a rain cloud.
- one of a series of polar-orbiting meteorological and environmental research satellites, the last of which Nimbus 7, launched 1978, was the first satellite designed to monitor atmospheric pollutants.
- a dark grey rain-bearing cloud
- (in combination)
- an emanation of light surrounding a saint or deity
- a representation of this emanation
- a surrounding aura or atmosphere
