NORTHER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: norther

Meaning:

A wind that blows from the north

Synonyms:

boreas; north wind; norther; northerly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("norther" is a kind of...):

air current; current of air; wind (air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "norther"):

bise; bize (a dry cold north wind in southeastern France)

mistral (a strong north wind that blows in France during the winter)

tramontana; tramontane (a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean)

Derivation:

northerly (coming from the north; used especially of wind)