north wind

What does north wind mean?

north wind means "a wind that blows from the north".

What is another word for north wind?

Close synonyms include northerly, norther, boreas. 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 north wind a common word?

north 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for north wind come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.