Noun

• S: (n) Easter (a Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• S: (n) Pasch, Pascha (the Christian festival of Easter)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) movable feast, moveable feast (a religious holiday that falls on different dates in different years)
• S: (n) east wind, easter, easterly (a wind from the east)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) wind, air current, current of air (air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure) "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere"
• S: (n) airstream (a relatively well-defined prevailing wind)
• S: (n) calm air, calm (wind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale)
• S: (n) breeze, zephyr, gentle wind, air (a slight wind (usually refreshing)) "the breeze was cooled by the lake"; "as he waited he could feel the air on his neck"
• S: (n) chinook, chinook wind, snow eater (a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies)
• S: (n) harmattan (a dusty wind from the Sahara that blows toward the western coast of Africa during the winter)
• S: (n) crosswind (wind blowing across the path of a ship or aircraft)
• S: (n) fohn, foehn (a warm dry wind that blows down the northern slopes of the Alps)
• S: (n) khamsin (an oppressively hot southerly wind from the Sahara that blows across Egypt in the spring)
• S: (n) Santa Ana (a strong hot dry wind that blows in winter from the deserts of southern California toward the Pacific Coast)
• S: (n) high wind (a very strong wind) "rain and high winds covered the region"
• S: (n) headwind (wind blowing opposite to the path of a ship or aircraft)
• S: (n) katabatic wind, catabatic wind (a wind caused by the downward motion of cold air)
• S: (n) tailwind (wind blowing in the same direction as the path of a ship or aircraft)
• S: (n) doldrums (a belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific)
• S: (n) languor (oppressively still air) "the afternoon was hot, quiet, and heavy with languor"; "Summer shows all the languor of a hot, breezeless day as the dancer lazily brushes her hand over her brow"
• S: (n) east wind, easter, easterly (a wind from the east)
• S: (n) northwest wind, northwester (a wind from the northwest)
• S: (n) southwester, sou'wester (a strong wind from the southwest)
• S: (n) southeaster, sou'easter (a strong wind from the southeast)
• S: (n) gale (a strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on Beaufort scale)
• S: (n) gust, blast, blow (a strong current of air) "the tree was bent almost double by the gust"
• S: (n) monsoon (a seasonal wind in southern Asia; blows from the southwest (bringing rain) in summer and from the northeast in winter)
• S: (n) monsoon (any wind that changes direction with the seasons)
• S: (n) north wind, northerly, norther, boreas (a wind that blows from the north)
• S: (n) prevailing wind (the predominant wind direction) "the prevailing wind is from the southwest"
• S: (n) simoom, simoon, samiel (a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa)
• S: (n) south wind, souther, southerly (a wind from the south)
• S: (n) squall (sudden violent winds; often accompanied by precipitation)
• S: (n) thermal (rising current of warm air)
• S: (n) draft, draught (a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle))
• S: (n) west wind, wester (wind that blows from west to east)
• derivationally related form
• W: (adj) easterly [Related to: easter] (from the east; used especially of winds) "an eastern wind"; "the winds are easterly"