northwest wind

1. 1.

   a wind from the northwest

   Synonymsnorthwester

   Broaderwind

Questions about northwest wind

What does northwest wind mean?

northwest wind means "a wind from the northwest".

What is another word for northwest wind?

Close synonyms include northwester. 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 northwest wind a common word?

northwest 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.