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in the wind

in the wind prepositional phrase: impending or in the offing; imminent.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) Impending or in the offing; imminent.
    • There is something in the wind, that we cannot get in.1594, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, act 3, scene 1
    • There's trouble in the wind, my boys.1892, Rudyard Kipling, “Tommy”, in Barrack-room Ballads, line 31
  2. (idiomatic) At whereabouts unknown, especially when law enforcement authorities have lost track of one's location.

in the wind meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Arabic

in the wind in Tamil

காற்றின் திசையில்

in the wind in Malayalam

coming, on the way, about to happen
അടുത്തുവരുന്ന, ആസന്ന, അടുത്തുതന്നെ സംഭവിക്കാൻ പോകുന്ന, മധ്യേമാർഗ്ഗം, വന്നുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്ന, ചുറ്റും കണാവുന്ന

in the wind in Arabic

to be in unknown location
في مهبّ الريح

Synonyms of in the wind

All synonyms of in the wind

Questions about in the wind

What does in the wind mean?
In the wind means impending or in the offing; imminent.
What is in the wind in Tamil?
In the wind in Tamil is காற்றின் திசையில். See In the wind meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is in the wind?
In the wind is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in the wind in the dictionary

  1. in the wars
  2. in the way
  3. in the way of
  4. in the weeds
  5. in the wild
  6. in the wind
  7. in the wind's eye
  8. in the wink of an eye
  9. in the works
  10. in the world
  11. in the worst way

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: in the wind (page history and authors); in the wind (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); in the wind (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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