wynd
/waɪnd/
wynd noun: a narrow lane, alley or path, especially one between houses.
Noun
wynd (plural wynds)
- A narrow lane, alley or path, especially one between houses.
- Fortune favoured us, and we got home without meeting a soul. Once we saw a man, who seemed not quite sober, passing along a street in front of us; but we hid in a door till he had disappeared up an opening such as there are here, steep little closes, or wynds, as they call them in Scotland.1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC
- He flew through the moonlight streets, clattering over cobbles, darting down narrow alleys and up twisty wynds, racing to his love.1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 637
- A stack of hay.
- This was then used as the base for the cocks of hay, or wyndes as we called them. […] A piece of hay with its ends firmly embedded in the base of the wynde was wound around the hay twine and knotted with it. The ball of twine was then thrown across the wynde and tied at the other side in the same...1988, Alice Taylor, To School Through the Fields: An Irish Country Childhood, Brandon Ltd, →ISBN, pages 80–81
wynd meaning in Tamil
wynd in Tamil
- சந்து
Examples of wynd in a sentence
- Stirling's called an Edinburgh mini-me: the same winding wynds, the same historic core, castle, looming romantic hills.2010 July 10, Tom Dyckhoff, The Guardian:
- The ball of twine was then thrown across the wynde and tied at the other side in the same way, and this process was repeated crossways.1988, Alice Taylor, To School Through the Fields: An Irish Country Childhood, Brandon Ltd, →ISBN, pages 80–81:
Synonyms of wynd
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Forms of wynd
| plural | wynds |
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Origin of wynd
From Middle English wynde, probably from wynden (“to wind, proceed, go”). Compare also Old English ġewind; Old Norse venda.
Words that rhyme with wynd
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- rind
- signed
- unbind
- unkind
- unmind
- aligned
- chined
- combined
- defined
- designed
- Glynde
- hind
- inclined
- intertwined
- rebind
- spined
- to one's mind
- unassigned
- undersigned
- uninclined
- unlined
- upwind
- vined
- amind
- animalkind
- assigned
- brined
- crined
- declined
- dined
- enshrined
- entwined
- fined
- humankind
- mined
- misaligned
- pined
- presence of mind
- re-signed
- realigned
- reassigned
- redefined
- redesigned
- remind
- resigned
- rined
- shined
- twined
Questions about wynd
- What does wynd mean?
- Wynd means a narrow lane, alley or path, especially one between houses.
- What is wynd in Tamil?
- Wynd in Tamil is சந்து. See Wynd meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use wynd in a sentence?
- Stirling's called an Edinburgh mini-me: the same winding wynds, the same historic core, castle, looming romantic hills.
- What part of speech is wynd?
- Wynd is a noun.
- How do you pronounce wynd?
- Wynd is pronounced /waɪnd/.
- What is the plural of wynd?
- The plural of wynd is wynds.
Words near wynd in the dictionary
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