Usually means: Dominant wind direction in area.
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  1. prevailing wind: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prevailing wind: Merriam-Webster
  3. prevailing wind: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. prevailing wind: Vocabulary.com
  5. prevailing wind: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. prevailing wind: Dictionary.com
  7. Prevailing wind: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. prevailing wind: Rhymezone
  9. prevailing wind: FreeDictionary.org
  10. prevailing wind: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. prevailing wind: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. prevailing wind: Wiktionary

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  1. prevailing wind: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  (meteorology) A wind in a region of the Earth that blows predominantly from one direction.

Similar:
windstorm, crosswind, south wind, trade wind, windborne, solar wind, tailwind, north wind, windiness, windblown, more...

Opposite:
leeward, downwind, lee side

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Similar:
windstorm, crosswind, south wind, trade wind, windborne, solar wind, tailwind, north wind, windiness, windblown, more...

Opposite:
leeward, downwind, lee side



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