windward side

1. 1.

   the side toward the wind

   Synonymsweatherboardweather side

   Broaderwindward

Questions about windward side

What does windward side mean?

windward side means "the side toward the wind".

What is another word for windward side?

Close synonyms include weatherboard, weather side. 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 windward side a common word?

windward side 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.