Monsoon meaning

mŏn-so͝on'
The definition of a monsoon is a seasonal, intense wind that blows from the southwest from April to October and from the northeast at other time of the year in parts of Asia, creating heavy rainstorms.

An example of a monsoon is a storm that causes heavy flooding and extreme wind damage.

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A wind from the southwest or south that brings heavy rainfall to southern Asia in the summer.
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A similar seasonal wind, as in the southwest United States, that brings increased rainfall.
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The rain that comes with any of these winds or wind systems.
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A system of winds that influences the climate of a large area and that reverses direction with the seasons. Monsoons are caused primarily by the much greater annual variation in temperature over large areas of land than over large areas of adjacent ocean water. This variation causes an excess of atmospheric pressure over the continents in the winter, and a deficit in the summer. The disparity causes strong winds to blow between the ocean and the land, bringing heavy seasonal rainfall.
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A wind system that influences large climatic regions and reverses direction seasonally.
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Any wind system that influences large climactic regions and reverses direction seasonally, specif., such a seasonal system in the SW U.S. that brings increased rainfall.
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The rains that come with any of these winds or systems.
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A seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and S Asia, blowing from the southwest from April to October, and from the northeast during the rest of the year.
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The season during which this wind blows from the southwest, characterized by heavy rains.
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In southern Asia, a wind that is part of such a system and that blows from the southwest in the summer and usually brings heavy rains.
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Any of a number of winds associated with regions where most rain falls during a particular season.
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Tropical rainy season when the rain lasts for several months with few interruptions.
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A wind from the southwest or south that brings heavy rainfall to southern Asia in the summer.
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A similar seasonal wind, as in the southwest United States, that brings increased rainfall.
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The rain that comes with any of these winds or wind systems.
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A wind system that influences large climatic regions and reverses direction seasonally.
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The rains themselves.
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Entire meteorological systems with such characteristics.
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Origin of monsoon

Obsolete Dutch monssoen from Portuguese monção from Arabic mawsim season from wasama to mark wsm in Semitic roots

Sentence Examples

  • It is to be noted that the climate of the islands of the Pacific becomes more and more healthy the farther they are from the monsoon region.

  • There are two seasons of rainfall over the province: the monsoon season, when supplies of moisture are brought up by the ocean winds from the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal; and the winter season, when storms advancing eastwards from Persia and the Caspian districts occasion winds, widespread rain and snowfall.

  • The wet season, lasting during the prevalence of the south-west monsoon, from April to December, is clearly defined on the Pacific slope.

  • Tibet is affected by the south-west monsoon, just as the Pamirs are affected, but in varying degrees according to geographical position.

  • The wet season - May to October - corresponds with the prevalence of the south-west monsoon in the Bay of Bengal.

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