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monsoons

monsoons is the plural of monsoon.

Meaning of monsoon

Noun

monsoon (plural monsoons)

  1. Any of a number of winds associated with regions where most rain falls during a particular season.
  2. Tropical rainy season when the rain lasts for several months with few interruptions.
    • Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying...2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28
  3. The rains themselves.
  4. Entire meteorological systems with such characteristics.
  5. (figuratively) Any heavy rainstorm.

Phrases with monsoons

Questions about monsoons

What is monsoons the plural of?
Monsoons is the plural of monsoon.

Words near monsoons in the dictionary

  1. monsoon seasons
  2. monsoonal
  3. monsoonally
  4. monsoonish
  5. monsoonlike
  6. monsoons
  7. monsoony
  8. Monsour
  9. Monsours
  10. Monsr
  11. Monsr.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: monsoons (page history and authors); monsoon (page history and authors). 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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