Stormwind
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Stormwind is a noun meaning A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm.
Meaning
A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm.
Example Sentences
He slashed right and left as the fallen banner was ripped apart, the thousand ragged pieces swirling away like crimson leaves in a stormwind.
1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion, New York: Samuel Colman, Volume 1, Book 2, Chapter 6, p. 146, […] the stormwind smites the wall of the mountain cliff […]
Also know, that it is as possible to see the winde as the aire, their substances being too tenuous to be perceived; unlesse in a storm-winde, whose matter is an exhalation so thick that it darkens the aire:
1872, Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, London: Macmillan, prefatory poem, Without, the frost, the blinding snow, The storm-wind’s moody madness— Within, the firelight’s ruddy glow, And childhood’s nest of gladness.
Word Forms
- stormwinds
- storm-wind
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tempest, storm, blow, fire-storm, gust, whirlwind.
Related Dictionary Tools
Sources & Attribution
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.