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

1 sense of foehn

Sense 1
fohn, foehn -- (a warm dry wind that blows down the northern slopes of the Alps)
       => 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")