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chinook is a noun meaning "a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies". It carries 5 recorded senses.
a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies
a member of an important North American Indian people who controlled the mouth of the Columbia river; they were organized into settlements rather than tribes
pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon
large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for chinook come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.