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tifoon

tifoon is the obsolete form of typhoon.

Meaning of typhoon

Noun

typhoon (plural typhoons)

  1. A severe tropical cyclone; an intense, rotating storm.
  2. A weather phenomenon in the northwestern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane except for its geographical region, typically resulting in wind speeds of 64 knots (119 km/h) or above. Equivalent to a cyclone in the Indian Ocean and Indonesia and Australia.
    • Near-synonyms: cyclone (narrow sense), hurricane
    Synonyms:
    cyclone, hurricane

See all 5 meanings of typhoon

Forms of tifoon

pluraltifoons

Questions about tifoon

What is tifoon the obsolete form of?
Tifoon is the obsolete form of typhoon.

Words near tifoon in the dictionary

  1. Tiflis
  2. tiflorex
  3. tifluadom
  4. tiflucarbine
  5. tifo
  6. tifoon
  7. tifoons
  8. tifos
  9. tifosi
  10. tifoso
  11. tifs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tifoon (page history and authors); typhoon (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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