WINDSTORM

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A storm consisting of violent winds

Classified under:

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

storm; violent storm (a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning)

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

cyclone (a violent rotating windstorm)

dust storm; duster; sandstorm; sirocco (a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand)

tempest ((literary) a violent wind)

whirlwind (a more or less vertical column of air whirling around itself as it moves over the surface of the Earth)