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TYPHOON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does typhoon mean?
• TYPHOON (noun)
The noun TYPHOON has 1 sense:
1. a tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans
Familiarity information: TYPHOON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("typhoon" is a kind of...):
cyclone (a violent rotating windstorm)
Context examples
"There was rumor that they went to the South Seas—were lost on a trading schooner in a typhoon, or something like that."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Disabled in that typhoon. Old tub. Opened up top and bottom like a sieve. They were adrift four days.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The ambient sound field is dominated by the sound of earthquakes, both near and far, as well as distinct moans of baleen whales, and the clamor of a category 4 typhoon that just happened to pass overhead.
(Seven miles deep, the ocean is still a noisy place, NOAA)
Gales we encountered now and again, for it was a raw and stormy region, and, in the middle of June, a typhoon most memorable to me and most important because of the changes wrought through it upon my future.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
We must have been well in the path of the trans-Pacific steamships when the typhoon moderated, and here, to the surprise of the hunters, we found ourselves in the midst of seals—a second herd, or sort of rear-guard, they declared, and a most unusual thing.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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