rolling wave

1. 1.

   a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore

   Synonymsrollerroll

   Broaderwave

Questions about rolling wave

What does rolling wave mean?

rolling wave means "a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore".

What is another word for rolling wave?

Close synonyms include roller, roll. 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 rolling wave a common word?

rolling wave 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.