TAILWIND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tailwind mean? 

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

1. wind blowing in the same direction as the path of a ship or aircraft

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAILWIND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wind blowing in the same direction as the path of a ship or aircraft

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("tailwind" 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)