northwind
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.57 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "[…] promising to surrender them whenever they should be summoned by a fleet that should sail to them [the Pelasgians of Lemnos] from Attica in one day with a northwind."
- "[...] and notwithstanding the cutting blasts of a northwind, and the sharp driftings of the half-frozen snow, [...]"
- "To illustrate more fully, if an author managed over a certain number of his pages to produce a feeling of sultriness, or oppression, in the reader, this would unconsciously awaken in the reader the desire for a cold, fresh northwind — and thus some aspect of a northwind would be effective if called forth by some aspect of sultriness."