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Skye

proper nounnounattested in dialogue

  • //skaɪ//

A female given name transferred from the place name, of modern usage, or a fanciful spelling of the word sky.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name transferred from the place name, of modern usage, or a fanciful spelling of the word sky.

  2. 2

    A community in The Nation municipality, United Counties of Prescott and Russell, Ontario, Canada.

  3. 3

    An eastern suburb of Adelaide in the City of Burnside, South Australia.

  4. 4

    A southern suburb of Melbourne in the City of Frankston, Victoria, Australia.

  5. 5

    Variant of Isle of SkyeEllipsis of Isle of Skye, a large island in Scotland.

    I would like to climb high in a tree / I could be happy, I could be happy / Or go to Skye on my holiday

Etymology

Derived from Scottish Gaelic An t-Eilean Sgitheanach, of long disputed (probably non-Indo-European substrate) origin, with several theories proposed and none widely accepted; see Etymology of Skye.

noun

  1. 1

    A Skye terrier.

    In fact, few drop-eared Skyes are being exhibited and none of the present top winners has them.

Forms

plural
Skyes
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).