Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun east_wind

1 sense of east wind

Sense 1
east wind, easter, easterly -- (a wind from the east)
       => wind, air current, current of air -- (air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere")