dust storm

1. 1.

   a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand

   “it was the kind of duster not experienced in years”

   Synonymsdustersandstormsirocco

   Broaderwindstorm

Questions about dust storm

What does dust storm mean?

dust storm means "a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand".

What is another word for dust storm?

Close synonyms include duster, sandstorm, sirocco. 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 dust storm a common word?

dust storm 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.