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Definition: Monsoon |
MonsoonNoun1. A seasonal wind in S Asia; blows from the SW (bringing rain) in summer and from the NE in winter. 2. Season in S Asia when the SW monsoon blows, bringing heavy rains. 3. Any wind that changes direction with the seasons. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "monsoon" was first used: 1584. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Wind of the general circulation of the atmosphère, typified by the seasonal persistence of a given wind direction and by a pronounced change in this direction from one season to another. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Wind system on a continental scale that seasonally reverse their direction 99999 INTERNATIONAL DE MONACO, 1951; DF:Encl. Britanica. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Monsoon is a corruption of the Malay word mooseem (year or season). For six months it is a north-east trade-wind, and for six months a south-west. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Public Administration | Seasonal rain-bearing winds, characteristically strongest in the southern and S. E. coasts of Asia. Source: European Union. (references) |
Weather | A name for seasonal winds, first applied to the winds over the Arabian Sea that blow for six months from the northeast and for six months from the southwest. The term has been extended to similar winds in other parts of the world (i.e., the prevailing west to northwest winds of summer in Europe have been called the European monsoon). The primary cause for these seasonal winds is the much greater annual variation of temperature over large land areas compared with neighboring ocean surfaces, causing an excess of pressure over the continents in winter and a deficit in summer, but other factors, such as topography of the land, also have an effect. The monsoons are strongest in the southern and eastern sides of Asia, but also occur along the coasts of tropical regions wherever the planetary circulation is not strong enough to inhibit them. The monsoon climate can be described as a long winter-spring dry season, which includes a cold season followed by a short hot season just preceding the rains; a summer and early autumn rainy season, which is generally very wet but may vary greatly from year to year; and a secondary warming immediately after the rainy season. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Monsoon is the name of a periodic wind, especially in the Indian Ocean and southern Asia. The word is also used to label the season in which this wind blows southwest in India and adjacent areas that is characterized by very heavy rainfall, and specifically the rainfall that is associated with this wind.
The word monsoon appears to have originated from the Arabic word mausim, which means season. It is most often applied to the seasonal reversals of the wind direction along the shores of the Indian Ocean, especially in the Arabian Sea, that blow from the southwest during one half of the year and from the northeast during the other
As monsoons have come to be better understood, the definition has been broadened to include almost all of the phenomena associated with the annual weather cycle within the tropical and subtropical continents of Asia, Australia, and Africa and the adjacent seas and oceans. It is within these regions that the most vigorous and dramatic cycles of weather events on Earth takes place.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Monsoon."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| MONEG | English | Monsoon Numerical Experimentation Group | Geography |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Wind | Gust, blast, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest, hurricane, whirlwind, tornado, samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon; simoon, simoom; harmattan, monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise, tramontane, levanter; capful of wind; fresh breeze, stiff breeze; keen blast; blizzard, barber, candelia, chinook, foehn, khamsin, norther, vendaval, wuther. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Monsoon |
| English words defined with "monsoon": afloat, awash ♦ flooded ♦ inundated ♦ overflowing ♦ sheet. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "monsoon": Irvine Dataflow ♦ monsoon progression, Motorola, Inc. ♦ progression of the monsoon. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Monsoon" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Manx (monsoon). |
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Screenplays | Like monsoon, it moves darkness over all country. (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom; writing credit: George Lucas; Willard Huyck) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Monsoon (1952) The Monsoon (1937) Before and After the Monsoon (1985) | |
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Civil Liberties | India | During the monsoon session of parliament, the Government introduced a Convergence Communication Bill that seeks to set up a common regulatory body for telecommunication, information technology, and broadcasting. (references) |
India | Under the Official Secrets Act, the Government may restrict publication of sensitive stories; nonetheless, while the Government at times interprets this power broadly to suppress criticism of its policies, the Government introduced a right to information bill in the 2000 Monsoon Session of Parliament. (references) | |
Economic History | India | Climate: Temperate to subtropical monsoon. (references) |
Travel | Nepal | Many mountain and hill roads are impassable during monsoon season (June-September) due to landslides and are hazardous even in the best weather. (references) |
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| "Monsoon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.31% of the time. "Monsoon" is used about 128 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.31% | 122 | 29,069 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.13% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 1.56% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 128 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Monsoon PLC |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "monsoon": monsoon progression ♦ progression of the monsoon. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "monsoon": monsoon-like, monsoon-soaked. | |
Ending with "monsoon": post-monsoon, pre-monsoon. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "monsoon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | muson, stinë me shira. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الموسم الذي تهب فيه الريح, ريح موسمية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | мусон. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 季风. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | monzun. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | monsun, monsum. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | moesson. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | موسم بارندگی , بادموسمی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | monsuuni. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mousson. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | monsun. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μουσώνας. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | monszun. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | angin musim. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | monsone. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | モロッコ革 (Mongol, mongolism, monk, monkey, monkey banana, monkey business, monkey pox, monkey spanner, monkey wrench, morocco leather, my dear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | モンスーン . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 계 '. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | monsoon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onsoonmay monóxido, monçoe, monção (monster). (various references) muson, anotimp (season). (various references) муссон. (various references) monsunu. (various references) monsun. (various references) monzón. (various references) monsun. (various references) muson, mevsim rüzgârı. (various references) мусон. (various references) gió mùa mùa mưa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Arabic | 500-Modern | mawsim. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "monsoon": monsoonal, monsoons. (additional references) | |
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"Monsoon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mansoon, Mansoor, Meinsohn, Menson, Menston, minson, mnso, momsoon, Moncion, Mondon, Mongon, Monobon, Monodon, Monoux, Monsenor, Monsigny, Monsue, monzon, Monzur, moonsoon, Mosolov, mosoon, Mosson, Movshon, Munslow, omnopon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "monsoon" (pronounced mÄnsuw"n) |
| 3 | -s uw" n | bassoon, contrabassoon, soon. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "m-n-n-o-o-o-s" | |
-2 letters: monos, moons, nomos, noons. | |
-3 letters: mono, mons, moon, moos, noms, noon, soon. | |
-4 letters: mon, moo, mos, nom, noo, nos, oms, ons, som, son. | |
-5 letters: mo, no, om, on, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "m-n-n-o-o-o-s" | |
+1 letter: monsoons. | |
+2 letters: monopsony, monotones, monsoonal, moonstone. | |
+3 letters: honeymoons, monogynous, monotonies, monotonous, moonstones. | |
+4 letters: monoclonals, monophonies, monopsonies, motoneurons, nincompoops, noncomposer, nonconforms, nonvenomous. | |
+5 letters: honeymooners, monophthongs, monopolising, monotonously, nonclassroom, noncomposers, noncompounds, noneconomist, nonglamorous. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 6E 73 6F 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- -. ... --- --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01101110 01110011 01101111 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o n s o o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 006E 0073 006F 006F 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47818085818180 |
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