HIGH WIND

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does high wind mean? 

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

1. a very strong wind

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGH WIND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A very strong wind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Context example:

rain and high winds covered the region

Hypernyms ("high 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)

 Context examples 

This frequently took place, but a high wind quickly dried the earth, and the season became far more pleasant than it had been.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The high wind blew from the north-west for twenty-four hours, when it fell calm, and in the night sprang up from the south-west.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The snow was now falling more heavily, and swirled about fiercely, for a high wind was beginning to blow.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I wondered what it meant: I wondered, too, at the punctual satisfaction he never failed to exhibit on an occasion that seemed to me of small moment, namely, my weekly visit to Morton school; and still more was I puzzled when, if the day was unfavourable, if there was snow, or rain, or high wind, and his sisters urged me not to go, he would invariably make light of their solicitude, and encourage me to accomplish the task without regard to the elements.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

One said she lived in the South Foreland Light, and had singed her whiskers by doing so; another, that she was made fast to the great buoy outside the harbour, and could only be visited at half-tide; a third, that she was locked up in Maidstone jail for child-stealing; a fourth, that she was seen to mount a broom in the last high wind, and make direct for Calais.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)