trade wind

1. 1.

   steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator

   “they rode the trade winds going west”

   Synonymstrade

   Broaderprevailing wind

Questions about trade wind

What does trade wind mean?

trade wind means "steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator".

What is another word for trade wind?

Close synonyms include trade. 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 trade wind a common word?

trade 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.