prevailing wind

1. 1.

   the predominant wind direction

   “the prevailing wind is from the southwest”

   Broaderwind

   Narrowerantitradestrade windantitrade wind

Questions about prevailing wind

What does prevailing wind mean?

prevailing wind means "the predominant wind direction".

Is prevailing wind a common word?

prevailing 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.