NORTHER (norther)

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Irregular inflected form: norther   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does norther mean? 

• NORTHER (noun)
  The noun NORTHER has 1 sense:

1. a wind that blows from the north

  Familiarity information: NORTHER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wind that blows from the north

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

boreas; north wind; norther; northerly

Hypernyms ("norther" 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 "norther"):

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)

Derivation:

northerly (coming from the north; used especially of wind)