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TRADE WIND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does trade wind mean?
• TRADE WIND (noun)
The noun TRADE WIND has 1 sense:
1. steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator
Familiarity information: TRADE WIND used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Synonyms:
trade; trade wind
Context example:
they rode the trade winds going west
Hypernyms ("trade wind" is a kind of...):
prevailing wind (the predominant wind direction)
Context examples
We had one violent storm, and were under a necessity of steering westward to get into the trade wind, which holds for above sixty leagues.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He was almost humming the words, and it dawned upon him that the other reminded him of the trade wind, of the Northeast Trade, steady, and cool, and strong.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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