north wind

Questions about north wind

What is another word for north wind?

It depends which north wind you mean. In the sense “a wind that blows from the north”, the synonyms are northerly, norther, boreas. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of north wind?

WordNet records no antonym for north wind. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for north wind come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of north wind

• Full entry for north windAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for north windWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.