SIMOON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does simoon mean? 

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

1. a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIMOON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

samiel; simoom; simoon

Hypernyms ("simoon" 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 

I kept my eyes fixed on the window, but the wolf drew his head back, and a whole myriad of little specks seemed to come blowing in through the broken window, and wheeling and circling round like the pillar of dust that travellers describe when there is a simoon in the desert.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)