SEA BREEZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sea breeze mean? 

• SEA BREEZE (noun)
  The noun SEA BREEZE has 1 sense:

1. a cooling breeze from the sea (during the daytime)

  Familiarity information: SEA BREEZE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEA BREEZE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cooling breeze from the sea (during the daytime)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("sea breeze" is a kind of...):

air; breeze; gentle wind; zephyr (a slight wind (usually refreshing))

 Context examples 

The sun had just set, the sea breeze was rustling and tumbling in the woods and ruffling the grey surface of the anchorage; the tide, too, was far out, and great tracts of sand lay uncovered; the air, after the heat of the day, chilled me through my jacket.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The sea breeze, as though it had the sooner blown itself out by its unusual violence, was already at an end; it had been succeeded by light, variable airs from the south and south-east, carrying great banks of fog; and the anchorage, under lee of Skeleton Island, lay still and leaden as when first we entered it.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

As I continued to thread the tall woods, I could hear from far before me not only the continuous thunder of the surf, but a certain tossing of foliage and grinding of boughs which showed me the sea breeze had set in higher than usual.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)