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typhoon

ty·phoon
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [tahy-foon]
    • /taɪˈfun/
    • /taɪˈfuːn/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [tahy-foon]
    • /taɪˈfun/

Definitions of typhoon word

  • noun typhoon a tropical cyclone or hurricane of the western Pacific area and the China seas. 1
  • noun typhoon a violent storm or tempest of India. 1
  • noun typhoon (initial capital letter) Military. a single-engine British ground attack aircraft of World War II. NATO's name for a class of nuclear-powered Soviet ballistic missile submarine carrying 20 multiwarhead missiles. 1
  • noun typhoon cyclone 1
  • countable noun typhoon A typhoon is a very violent tropical storm. 0
  • noun typhoon a violent tropical storm or cyclone, esp in the China seas and W Pacific 0
See all 8 definitions of typhoon

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Origin of typhoon

First appearance:

before 1580
One of the 35% oldest English words
1580-90; < dialectal Chinese, akin to Chinese dàfēng great wind, altered by association with Greek tȳphôn violent wind

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Parts of speech for Typhoon

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Typhoon

typhoon popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 73% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for typhoon

noun typhoon

  • blow — When a wind or breeze blows, the air moves.
  • chinook — a warm dry southwesterly wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains
  • cyclone — A cyclone is a violent tropical storm in which the air goes round and round.
  • draught — a drawing, sketch, or design.
  • draughts — a drawing, sketch, or design.
All 15 Synonyms of typhoon

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Related words

  • hurricane

    a violent, tropical, cyclonic storm of the western North Atlantic, having wind speeds of or in excess of 72 miles per hour (32 m/sec). Compare tropical cyclone, typhoon.

  • meteor

    Astronomy. a meteoroid that has entered the earth's atmosphere. a transient fiery streak in the sky produced by a meteoroid passing through the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or bolide.

  • tropical cyclone

    a cyclone that originates over a tropical ocean area and can develop into the destructive storm known in the U.S. as a hurricane, in the western Pacific region as a typhoon, and elsewhere by other names. Compare extratropical cyclone, hurricane (def 1), willy-willy.

  • tsunami

    an unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or undersea volcanic eruption.
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