typhoon
UK/taɪˈfuːn//taɪˈfun/
typhoon noun: a severe tropical cyclone; an intense, rotating storm.
Noun (1)
typhoon (plural typhoons)
- A severe tropical cyclone; an intense, rotating storm.
- 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
Verb
typhoon (third-person singular simple present typhoons, present participle typhooning, simple past and past participle typhooned)
Noun (2) capitalized: Typhoon
Typhoon (plural Typhoons)
- A Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft.
- A Hawker Typhoon, a World War II fighter-bomber aircraft.
- Synonyms:
- Tiffy
typhoon meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
typhoon in Hindi
- hurricane in the Pacific
- आंधी āndhī, तूफ़ान tūfān, चक्रवात cakravāt
typhoon in Tamil
- hurricane in the Pacific
- சூறாவளி cūṟāvaḷi
typhoon in Urdu
- hurricane in the Pacific
- طوفان tūfān
typhoon in Bengali
- hurricane in the Pacific
- টাইফুন ṭaiphun, ঘূর্ণিঝড় ghurnijhoṛ
More languagesFewer languages
- typhoon in Telugu
- తుఫాను tuphānu
- typhoon in Malayalam
- ചുഴലിക്കാറ്റ് cuḻalikkāṟṟŭ, കൊടുങ്കാറ്റ് koṭuṅkāṟṟŭ
- typhoon in Kannada
- ಬಿರುಗಾಳಿ ಮಳೆ birugāḷi maḷe
- typhoon in Sinhala
- ටයිෆූන් ṭayifūn
- typhoon in Tagalog
- bagyo
- typhoon in Arabic
- تَايْفُون tayfūn, إِعْصَار ʔiʕṣār, طُوفَان ṭūfān
- typhoon in Malay
- taufan
- typhoon in Indonesian
- topan, taifun
- typhoon in Persian
- طوفان tufân
- typhoon in Thai
- ไต้ฝุ่น dtâi-fùn
- typhoon in Vietnamese
- bão
- typhoon in Myanmar
- တိုင်ဖွန်း tuinghpwan:
Examples of typhoon in a sentence
- It must have been a mean typhoon that levelled this town.
- The typhoon pitched the deck of the ship.
- A tree fell in Hsinyi district in Taipei due to a typhoon.
Synonyms of typhoon
Forms of typhoon
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | typhoons |
| alternative form | touffon |
| alternative form | tuffon |
| alternative form | tufon |
| alternative form | typhon |
| alternative form | tuffoon |
| alternative form | tiffoon |
| alternative form | tifoon |
| alternative form | tyfoon |
| alternative form | tufan |
| alternative form | toofan |
| alternative form | touffan |
| alternative form | tyfoong |
| alternative form | ty-foong |
| alternative form | tyfung |
| alternative form | ty-fung |
| plural | Typhoons |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | typhoons |
| present participle | typhooning |
| past participle | typhooned |
Origin of typhoon
English texts mention typhon, tiphon as a Greek word for "whirlwind" since at least the 1550s, referring to Ancient Greek τυφῶν (tuphôn), τυφώς (tuphṓs, “whirlwind”) (the latter attested since Aeschylus), Τυφῶν (Tuphôn, “Typhon, father of the winds”). (French typhon (“whirlwind”) is said to be attested since 1504.) However, the first use of it as an English word for a whirlwind or storm dates to 1588, in the spelling Touffon, in the specific sense "giant storm in the Pacific"; this sense first appears in Europe in the mid 16th century in Portuguese tufão (attested since at least 1560), whence it entered English. Portuguese sailors likely got the word from Arabic طُوفَان (ṭūfān) (compare Persian طوفان (tufân), Hindi तूफ़ान (tūfān)), and some spellings of the English word (like tufan) seem to derive from that Arabic word. The Arabic word's origin is sometimes thought to be Sinitic 大風／大风 ("big wind", Mandarin dàfēng, Cantonese daai6 fung1 /taːi̯²² fʊŋ⁵⁵/, Hakka thai-fûng /tʰai̯⁵⁵ fuŋ²⁴/), and some English forms like tyfoong, tyfung are from or were modified based on Chinese. However, the Arabic word may be entirely Semitic from the native root ط و ف (ṭ w f) in the sense of the wind...
Words formed from typhoon
Phrases with typhoon
Words that rhyme with typhoon
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- croon
- blue moon
- boon
- monsoon
- noon
- pontoon
- raccoon
- tribune
- attune
- dragoon
- hoon
- immune
- picayune
- platoon
- soon
- swoon
- tycoon
- afternoon
- baboon
- commune
- doubloon
- harpoon
- jejune
- pantaloon
- picaroon
- shalloon
- bassoon
- buffoon
- cocoon
- dabloon
- entune
- gadroon
- hewn
- impugn
- jargoon
- june
- lacune
- last chance saloon
- lune
- macaroon
- man in the moon
- maroon
- poon
- puccoon
- ratoon
- scone
- toon
- trial balloon
Questions about typhoon
- What does typhoon mean?
- Typhoon means a severe tropical cyclone; an intense, rotating storm.
- What is typhoon in Hindi?
- Typhoon in Hindi is आंधी (āndhī), तूफ़ान (tūfān), चक्रवात (cakravāt). See Typhoon meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is typhoon?
- Typhoon can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce typhoon?
- Typhoon is pronounced /taɪˈfuːn/ (UK).
- What is the plural of typhoon?
- The plural of typhoon is typhoons.
Words near typhoon in the dictionary
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