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wind swell

wind swell noun: waves generated by local winds.

Noun

wind swell (plural wind swells)

  1. Waves generated by local winds.
    • Ground swell is sometimes defined as having a period (the average time between the crests of two consecutive waves) of more than 15 seconds, while a locally generated wind swell can be defined as having a period of 11 seconds or less.2005, Matt Warshaw, The Encyclopedia of Surfing, page 239

Forms of wind swell

pluralwind swells

Questions about wind swell

What does wind swell mean?
Wind swell means waves generated by local winds.
What part of speech is wind swell?
Wind swell is a noun.
What is the plural of wind swell?
The plural of wind swell is wind swells.

Words near wind swell in the dictionary

  1. wind storms
  2. wind stream
  3. wind streams
  4. wind strength
  5. wind strengths
  6. wind swell
  7. wind swells
  8. wind theft
  9. wind throb
  10. wind tower
  11. wind towers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wind swell (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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