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stormwind

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion, New York: Samuel Colman, Volume 1, Book 2, Chapter 6, p. 146, [...] the stormwind smites the wall of the mountain cliff [...]
  • 1872, Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, London: Macmillan, prefatory poem, Without, the frost, the blinding snow, The storm-wind’s moody madness— Within, the firelight’s ruddy glow, And childhood’s nest of gladness.

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History

Etymology

From storm + wind.