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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Greek Mythology The god of the north wind.
  • noun The north wind.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of curious mecopterous insects of the family Panorpidæ, composed of wingless species which look like small wingless grasshoppers. They are often found on snow in the winter.
  • noun In Greek myth, the god of the north wind.
  • noun The north wind personified; a cold, northerly wind.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The north wind; -- usually a personification.

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  • proper noun Greek mythology The god of the North Wind.
  • proper noun poetic the north wind personified

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a wind that blows from the north
  • noun (Greek mythology) the god who personified the north wind

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Latin Boreās, from Greek, from boreios, coming from the north.]

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From Ancient Greek Βορέας (Boreās)

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