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EAST WIND

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A wind from the east

Synonyms:

east wind; easter; easterly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("east wind" 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)

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

levanter (an easterly wind in the western Mediterranean area)

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 Context examples: 

When I undrew the curtains and looked out of bed, I saw him, in an equable temperature of respectability, unaffected by the east wind of January, and not even breathing frostily, standing my boots right and left in the first dancing position, and blowing specks of dust off my coat as he laid it down like a baby.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)