TYPHOON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does typhoon mean? 

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

1. a tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TYPHOON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("typhoon" is a kind of...):

cyclone (a violent rotating windstorm)

 Context examples 

"There was rumor that they went to the South Seas—were lost on a trading schooner in a typhoon, or something like that."

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

Disabled in that typhoon. Old tub. Opened up top and bottom like a sieve. They were adrift four days.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The ambient sound field is dominated by the sound of earthquakes, both near and far, as well as distinct moans of baleen whales, and the clamor of a category 4 typhoon that just happened to pass overhead.

(Seven miles deep, the ocean is still a noisy place, NOAA)

Gales we encountered now and again, for it was a raw and stormy region, and, in the middle of June, a typhoon most memorable to me and most important because of the changes wrought through it upon my future.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We must have been well in the path of the trans-Pacific steamships when the typhoon moderated, and here, to the surprise of the hunters, we found ourselves in the midst of seals—a second herd, or sort of rear-guard, they declared, and a most unusual thing.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)