monsoon
playSimple Definition of monsoon
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: a wind in the Indian Ocean and southern Asia that brings heavy rains in the summer
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: the rainy season that occurs in southern Asia in the summer
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: the rain that falls during this season
Full Definition of monsoon
1 : a periodic wind especially in the Indian Ocean and southern Asia
2 : the season of the southwest monsoon in India and adjacent areas that is characterized by very heavy rainfall
3 : rainfall that is associated with the monsoon
Examples of monsoon in a sentence
floods caused by summer monsoons
Origin and Etymology of monsoon
obsolete Dutch monssoen, from Portuguese monção, from Arabic mawsim time, season
First Known Use: 1584
Rhymes with monsoon
aswoon, attune, baboon, balloon, bassoon, blue moon, buffoon, Calhoun, Cancún, cardoon, cartoon, cocoon, commune, doubloon, dragoon, festoon, fine-tune, forenoon, full moon, gaboon, gadroon, galloon, Gudrun, half-moon, harpoon, high noon, immune, impugn, jargoon, jejune, Kowloon, Kunlun, lagoon, lampoon, lardoon, Maine coon, maroon, Neptune, new moon, oppugn, Pashtun, patroon, platoon, poltroon, pontoon, premune, puccoon, quadroon, ratoon, repugn, rough-hewn, saloon, Sassoon, shalloon, soupspoon, spittoon, spontoon, teaspoon, tribune, triune, tuchun, tycoon, typhoon, untune, Walloon
MONSOON Defined for Kids
monsoon
playDefinition of monsoon for Students
1 : a wind in the Indian Ocean and southern Asia that blows from the southwest from April to October and from the northeast from October to April
2 : the rainy season that comes with the southwest monsoon
Learn More about monsoon
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