GUST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gust mean? 

• GUST (noun)
  The noun GUST has 1 sense:

1. a strong current of air

  Familiarity information: GUST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A strong current of air

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

blast; blow; gust

Context example:

the tree was bent almost double by the gust

Hypernyms ("gust" 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 "gust"):

bluster (a violent gusty wind)

sandblast (a blast of wind laden with sand)

puff; puff of air; whiff (a short light gust of air)

Derivation:

gusty (blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts)

 Context examples 

If a gust of wind swept the waste, I looked up, fearing it was the rush of a bull; if a plover whistled, I imagined it a man.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A gust of overpowering rage swept over him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Everyone scattered like leaves before a gust of wind, and the quiet, happy household was broken up as suddenly as if the paper had been an evil spell.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A violent gust of wind, rising with sudden fury, added fresh horror to the moment.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The wind smote the schooner with a sudden gust, and she heeled over till her lee rail was buried, the roar in her rigging rising in pitch to a shriek.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The rude plank door was ajar, but as Alleyne approached it there came from within such a gust of rough laughter and clatter of tongues that he stood irresolute upon the threshold.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sweeping gusts of rain came up before this storm, like showers of steel; and, at those times, when there was any shelter of trees or lee walls to be got, we were fain to stop, in a sheer impossibility of continuing the struggle.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She went, however, and they sauntered about together many an half-hour in Mrs. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some tender ejaculation of Fanny's on the sweets of so protracted an autumn, they were forced, by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk for warmth.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I gnashed my teeth upon him with a gust of devilish fury; and the smile withered from his face—happily for him—yet more happily for myself, for in another instant I had certainly dragged him from his perch.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There was a simultaneous sigh, which created quite a little gust, as the last hope fled, and the treat was ravished from their longing lips.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)