gentle wind

Questions about gentle wind

What does gentle wind mean?

gentle wind means "a slight wind (usually refreshing)".

What is another word for gentle wind?

Close synonyms include breeze, zephyr, air. 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 gentle wind a common word?

gentle 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.