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northeast monsoon en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A period of rainy weather brought by northeasterly winds affecting much of the tropics from December to March.
   • Three miles or more to our starboard is a low dim line. It is the Eastern shore of Central Africa. We are running to the southward, before the North East Monsoon, between the mainland and the reef that for hundreds of miles fringes this perilous coast. 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

Forms

Coordinates

southwest monsoon

Translations (3)

tl amihan (northeasterly winds) · vi gió mùa đông bắc (northeasterly winds) · vi gió chướng (northeasterly winds)