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NORTHER
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Irregular inflected form: norther
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A wind that blows from the north
Synonyms:
boreas; north wind; norther; northerly
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
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)
