monsoon

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a seasonal wind system that reverses direction between summer and winter, especially in South and Southeast Asia

   The southwest monsoon carries moist ocean air across the Indian subcontinent.

2. 2
   noun

   the rainy season associated with such a wind system

   Roads were flooded for several weeks during the monsoon.

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Borrowed through Portuguese moncao and Dutch moesson from Arabic mawsim, 'season or appointed time,' from wasama, 'to mark.' Sailors used the Arabic seasonal term for the regularly reversing winds that governed navigation and rainfall around the Indian Ocean.

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