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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Roaring Forties (The). What seamen understand by this term is a zone of strong winds about lat. 40S., where a strong wind prevails throughout the year, from W.N.W. to E.S.E. There is a similar zone in the northern hemisphere, but the current of the wind is interrupted by the prevalence of land. The tendency, however, is from W.S.W. to E.N.E. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
So called because of the boisterous and prevailing westerly winds, which are especially strong in the South Indian Ocean.
The winds were probably first identified by Dutch sailor Henderik Brouwer in 1610 as a means to rapidly transit across the Indian Ocean en route to Batavia.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Roaring Forties."
Crosswords: ROARING FORTIES |
| Non-English Usage: "ROARING FORTIES" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (roaring forties). |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Roaring forties. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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roaring forties | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "ROARING FORTIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | roaring forties, broelende fyrrer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | roaring forties. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | karjuvat latitudit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | quarantièmes rugissants. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | stuermische Vierziger. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | θυελλώδη σαράντα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | viharos zóna az, viharöv az atlanti-óceánon, new york 40-ik és, eseménydús 1840-es évek az usa-ban, atlanti-óceánon, 50-ik utcái közé eső terület. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oaringray ortiesfay roaring forties. (various references) roaring forties. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-g-i-i-n-o-o-r-r-r-s-t" | |
-3 letters: originators, retrofiring, terrorising. | |
-4 letters: irrigators, originates, originator, rainforest, roistering, transferor. | |
-5 letters: arresting, ferritins, footgears, foresting, fostering, fringiest, frontages, frontiers, garroters, grainiest, gratifies, inferiors, interiors, introfies, irrigates, irrigator, notifiers, orangiest, oratories, organiser, originate, ratifiers, ratooners, registrar, reraising, reroofing, resifting, resonator, resorting, restoring, rigatonis, rogations, seriating, serrating, serration, sortieing, stringier, torrifies. | |
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