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SOUTH WIND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does south wind mean? 

SOUTH WIND (noun)
  The noun SOUTH WIND has 1 sense:

1. a wind from the southplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SOUTH WIND (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A wind from the south

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

south wind; souther; southerly

Hypernyms ("south 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)


 Context examples 


The south wind blew Dora, and the wild flowers in the hedges were all Doras, to a bud.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then the east wind and the west wind came, and said they too had not seen it, but the south wind said, I have seen the white dove—he has fled to the Red Sea, and is changed once more into a lion, for the seven years are passed away, and there he is fighting with a dragon; and the dragon is an enchanted princess, who seeks to separate him from you.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)



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