EAST WIND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does east wind mean? 

• EAST WIND (noun)
  The noun EAST WIND has 1 sense:

1. a wind from the east

  Familiarity information: EAST WIND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EAST WIND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wind from the east

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

east wind; easter; easterly

Hypernyms ("east wind" 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 "east wind"):

levanter (an easterly wind in the western Mediterranean area)

 Context examples 

How many winter days have I seen him, standing blue-nosed, in the snow and east wind, looking at the boys going down the long slide, and clapping his worsted gloves in rapture!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There’s an east wind coming, Watson.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I did not quite like your looks on Tuesday, but it was an ungenial morning; and though you will never own being affected by weather, I think every body feels a north-east wind.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Then the east wind and the west wind came, and said they too had not seen it, but the south wind said, I have seen the white dove—he has fled to the Red Sea, and is changed once more into a lion, for the seven years are passed away, and there he is fighting with a dragon; and the dragon is an enchanted princess, who seeks to separate him from you.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I feel so happy to-night. I have been so miserably weak, that to be able to think and move about is like feeling sunshine after a long spell of east wind out of a steel sky.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I have my alarms, but they are quite in a different quarter; and if I could have altered the weather, you would have had a good sharp east wind blowing on you the whole time—for here are some of my plants which Robert will leave out because the nights are so mild, and I know the end of it will be, that we shall have a sudden change of weather, a hard frost setting in all at once, taking everybody (at least Robert) by surprise, and I shall lose every one; and what is worse, cook has just been telling me that the turkey, which I particularly wished not to be dressed till Sunday, because I know how much more Dr.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A change had taken place in the weather the preceding evening, and a keen north-east wind, whistling through the crevices of our bedroom windows all night long, had made us shiver in our beds, and turned the contents of the ewers to ice.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mr. Davis had evidently taken his coffee too strong that morning, there was an east wind, which always affected his neuralgia, and his pupils had not done him the credit which he felt he deserved.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It had been a bitter day, and a cutting north-east wind had blown for some time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There’s an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)