monsoon

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /mɒnˈsuːn/    美 /mɑnˈsuːn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of a number of winds associated with regions where most rain falls during a particular season.
  2. Tropical rainy season when the rain lasts for several months with few interruptions.
    — Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
  3. The rains themselves.
  4. Entire meteorological systems with such characteristics.
  5. Any heavy rainstorm. figuratively

词形变化

monsoons plural

词汇关系

衍生词
antimonsoon east monsoon intermonsoon intermonsoonal intramonsoon intramonsoonal monsoonal monsoonally monsoon bucket monsoon forest monsoonish monsoonless monsoonlike monsoon rainforest monsoon season monsoony northeast monsoon northwest monsoon palaeomonsoon postmonsoon postmonsoonal premonsoon premonsoonal southeast monsoon southwest monsoon west monsoon

词源

Borrowed from Portuguese monção and Dutch moesson, from Arabic مَوْسِم (mawsim, “season”), from وَسَمَ (wasama, “to mark, to brand”).
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