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

1 sense of prevailing wind

Sense 1
prevailing wind -- (the predominant wind direction; "the prevailing wind is from the southwest")
       => 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")