monsoon

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Just as the monsoon is about to arrive, summer has left us a bit high and dry this week in another department: live music.

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  1. noun A wind system that influences large climatic regions and reverses direction seasonally.
  2. noun A wind from the southwest or south that brings heavy rainfall to southern Asia in the summer.
  3. noun The rain that accompanies this wind.

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  • It was full dark outside, stifling: the monsoon was already sweeping up through the United States of Bengal. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • The southwest monsoon is also likely to be below normal, while northeast rainfall is expected to be 81 per cent of the normal level and that for central India is likely to be 99 per cent of the normal monsoon. —  Times Now
  • Just as the monsoon is about to arrive, summer has left us a bit high and dry this week in another department: live music. —  Tucson Weekly
  • For the record, the met office said that the monsoon is expected to arrive in Vidarbha by June 24. —  SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
  • And that can happen in the upcoming monsoon, as well, but that decision is going to be the political and economic decision, because now the cost is ten times the original estimate. —  Democracy Now!
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  1. Obsolete Dutch monssoen, from Portuguese monção, from Arabic mawsim, season, from wasama, to mark; see wsm in Semitic roots.

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  1. Formerly also monson; cf. Swedish monsoon = Danish monsun (from English), Swedish mousson (from F.); French monson, monçon, now mousson = Spanish monzon = Portuguese monção = Italian monsone, a monsoon; with accommodation Roman termination, from Malay mūsim, monsoon, season, year, = Hindustani mausim, time, season, from Arabic mawsim, a time, season, from wasama, mark.
 

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