Definitions for Euroclydon

Euroclydon Eu·roc·ly·don

Spelling: [yoo-rok-li-don, yuh-]
IPA: /yʊˈrɒk lɪˌdɒn, yə-/

Euroclydon is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 505 anagrams from letters in Euroclydon (cdelnooruy).

Definitions for Euroclydon

noun

  1. gregale.

Origin of Euroclydon

1605-15; Greek euroklýdōn, equivalent to Eúro(s) Eurus + klýdōn wave, surge; compare klýzein to dash against, wash

Examples for Euroclydon

It was the Euroclydon that swept the trees from Malta, and nineteen hundred years have not repaired the ravage of that storm.

The Euroclydon knew just the moment to strike into the discord of the weather in New England.

Such a name would utterly miss the point, which is the violence of the wind as expressed in the term Euroclydon.

"A tempestuous wind called Euroclydon," repeated the reader.

In the New Testament he becomes Euroclydon, wind of the waves.

The men bore up well against their Euroclydon, and emulated the conduct of the ship.

Surely enough, this howling Euroclydon—for Euroclydon it now was—was bearing me and mine directly to Sybaris!

"And there met us 'a tempestuous wind called Euroclydon,'" said Birkenshead, looking up with a curious smile.

The word "Euroclydon" is made up from two Greek words, one of which means a wave, and the other the south-east wind.

But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon.

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