Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

winds of change

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.20 in modern English

Syllables: wind-s of change
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

2

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The inexorable process of inevitable societal and political change and progress over time.

Etymology

Coined by UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1960 in a speech advocating decolonization made in Cape Town, South Africa, which referred to the "wind of change […] blowing through this continent", later shifting to the plural "winds of change" in popular usage.

Questions

What does winds of change mean?: The inexorable process of inevitable societal and political change and progress over time.
Where does winds of change come from?: Coined by UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1960 in a speech advocating decolonization made in Cape Town, South Africa, which referred to the "wind of change […] blowing through this continent", later shifting to the plural "winds of change" in popular usage.

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