WINDSTORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does windstorm mean? 

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

1. a storm consisting of violent winds

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WINDSTORM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A storm consisting of violent winds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("windstorm" is a kind of...):

storm; violent storm (a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "windstorm"):

cyclone (a violent rotating windstorm)

dust storm; duster; sandstorm; sirocco (a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand)

tempest ((literary) a violent wind)

whirlwind (a more or less vertical column of air whirling around itself as it moves over the surface of the Earth)

 Context examples 

With each flyby, the data reinforced the idea that five windstorms were swirling in a pentagonal pattern around a central storm at the south pole and that the system seemed stable.

(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)

The team of scientists looked at the most harmful weather-related disasters — heat waves, cold snaps, wildfires, droughts, floods and windstorms — across the European Union, plus Switzerland, Norway and Iceland.

(Study: Climate Change Will Bring 50-Fold Rise in Europe Weather-related Deaths, VOA News)