NORTH WIND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does north wind mean? 

• NORTH WIND (noun)
  The noun NORTH WIND has 1 sense:

1. a wind that blows from the north

  Familiarity information: NORTH WIND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTH WIND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wind that blows from the north

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

boreas; north wind; norther; northerly

Hypernyms ("north wind" is a kind of...):

air current; current of air; wind (air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "north wind"):

bise; bize (a dry cold north wind in southeastern France)

mistral (a strong north wind that blows in France during the winter)

tramontana; tramontane (a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean)

 Context examples 

Several other men were examined concerning my landing, and they agreed that, with the strong north wind that had arisen during the night, it was very probable that I had beaten about for many hours and had been obliged to return nearly to the same spot from which I had departed.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

That the northland still drew him, they knew; for at night they sometimes heard him crying softly; and when the north wind blew and the bite of frost was in the air, a great restlessness would come upon him and he would lift a mournful lament which they knew to be the long wolf-howl.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)