TRAMONTANA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tramontana mean? 

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

1. a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRAMONTANA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

tramontana; tramontane

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

boreas; north wind; norther; northerly (a wind that blows from the north)