Zephyr

Quick meaning: Zephyr is a noun meaning A light wind from the west.

Meaning

A light wind from the west.

More Meanings

1. Any light refreshing wind; a gentle breeze.
2. Anything of fine, soft, or light quality, especially fabric.
3. (intransitive, poetic) To blow or move like a zephyr, or light breeze.
4. (transitive, poetic) To blow or blow on gently like a zephyr; to cool or refresh with a gentle breeze.
5. A type of soft confectionery made by whipping fruit and berry purée (mostly apple purée) with sugar and egg whites with subsequent addition of a gelling agent like pectin, carrageenan, agar, or gelatine.

Example Sentences

The French not only vastly expanded the Russian repertory of sauces, but they also introduced an entirely new range of light, airy desserts including creams, zephyrs, and mousses.

The dusk of evening came on, soft in its solemnity, and unoppressive even in its gloom, under the sweet sky and unmolested zephyr, casting its pleasant shadows along the edges of the grove.

The world hummed and spun about him. There was a whirling of zephyr skirts, four impassioned faces sweeping towards the open door of the passage that ran through the vicarage. He felt his position went with them.

O thou Goddeſſe, / Thou diuine Nature; thou^([sic – meaning how]) thy ſelfe thou blazon'ſt / In theſe two Princely Boyes: they are as gentle / As Zephires blowing below the Violet, / Not wagging his ſweet head; [...]

Word Forms

• zephyrs
• zephir
• zephyring
• zephyred

Synonyms for zephyr

Depending on context, synonyms include westerly, air, breeze.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include breeze, air, waft, fresco, weather, zing.

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