antitrade wind

1. 1.

   winds blowing from west to east and lying above the trade winds in the tropics

   Synonymsantitrade

   Broaderprevailing wind

Questions about antitrade wind

What does antitrade wind mean?

antitrade wind means "winds blowing from west to east and lying above the trade winds in the tropics".

What is another word for antitrade wind?

Close synonyms include antitrade. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is antitrade wind a common word?

antitrade wind is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.