Northwind
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Northwind is a noun meaning Alternative form of north wind.
Meaning
Alternative form of north wind.
Example Sentences
[...] and notwithstanding the cutting blasts of a northwind, and the sharp driftings of the half-frozen snow, [...]
[…] promising to surrender them whenever they should be summoned by a fleet that should sail to them [the Pelasgians of Lemnos] from Attica in one day with a northwind.
To illustrate more fully, if an author managed over a certain number of his pages to produce a feeling of sultriness, or oppression, in the reader, this would unconsciously awaken in the reader the desire for a cold, fresh northwind — and thus some aspect of a northwind would be effective if called forth by some aspect of sultriness.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include snowclad, corbie, windle, dulcinea.
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