sou'easter

1. 1.

   a strong wind from the southeast

   Synonymssoutheaster

   Broaderwind

Questions about sou'easter

What does sou'easter mean?

sou'easter means "a strong wind from the southeast".

How many syllables are in sou'easter?

sou'easter has 3 syllables: sou'-ea-ster. The stress falls on "sou'".

What is another word for sou'easter?

Close synonyms include southeaster. 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 sou'easter a common word?

sou'easter 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.