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- [burg noun wind, literary wahynd]
- /bɜrg noun wɪnd, literary waɪnd/
- /bɜːg wɪnd/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [burg noun wind, literary wahynd]
- /bɜrg noun wɪnd, literary waɪnd/
Definitions of berg wind words
- noun berg wind a hot dry wind in South Africa blowing from the plateau down to the coast 3
- noun berg wind a foehn blowing coastward from the interior plateau of South Africa. 1
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Origin of berg wind
First appearance:
before 1900 One of the 17% newest English words
First recorded in 1900-05
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Berg wind
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
berg wind popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 46% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
berg wind usage trend in Literature
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