east wind

1. 1.

   a wind from the east

   Synonymseastereasterly

   Broaderwind

   Narrowerlevanter

Questions about east wind

What does east wind mean?

east wind means "a wind from the east".

What is another word for east wind?

Close synonyms include easter, easterly. 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 east wind a common word?

east wind is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.