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siroccos

siroccos is the plural of sirocco.

Meaning of sirocco

Noun

sirocco (plural siroccos)

  1. A hot and often strong southerly to southeasterly wind on the Mediterranean that originates in the Sahara and adjacent North African regions.
    • But come, the board is spread; our silver lamp / Is trimm’d, and heeds not the sirocco’s damp.1814, George Gordon, Lord Byron, Corsair, i:14
    Synonyms:
    ghibli
  2. (colloquial) A draft of hot air from an artificial source of heat.
    • In the hearth at the north wall a large fire cracked and lisped, flushing the room with a dry sirocco that caused frozen skin to tingle.2003, Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, Random House, →ISBN, page 113

Questions about siroccos

What is siroccos the plural of?
Siroccos is the plural of sirocco.

Words near siroccos in the dictionary

  1. siRNAs
  2. sirobasidiaceous
  3. siroc
  4. sirocco
  5. siroccoish
  6. siroccos
  7. sirocs
  8. sirodesmin
  9. sirodesmins
  10. sirohaem
  11. sirohaems

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Adapted from Wiktionary: siroccos (page history and authors); sirocco (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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