Definitions for sirocco

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sirocco si·roc·co

Spelling: [suh-rok-oh]

IPA: /səˈrɒk oʊ/

Sirocco is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in sirocco (ccioors).

Definitions for sirocco

noun

1. a hot, dry, dustladen wind blowing from northern Africa and affecting parts of southern Europe.
2. a warm, sultry south or southeast wind accompanied by rain, occurring in the same regions.
3. any hot, oppressive wind, especially one in the warm sector of a cyclone.

Origin of sirocco

1610-20; Italian, variant of scirocco Arabic sharq east

Examples for sirocco

He shivered; then a sirocco of fire followed the void of the wind.

He remembered the morning of sirocco, his fear, his passion of tears in the boat.

Tramontana and sirocco alternate, and each is more unendurable than the other.

The deep melancholy poured into him by sirocco caused him to do so now.

It was a magnificent day, very hot but not sultry, free from sirocco.

For the hand he held was shaking like some slender-stalked lily in the clutch of the sirocco.

Kalliope, faithful even amid the torment of the sirocco, followed her.

The air was still, heavy, and parched with the breath of the Australasian sirocco.

Owing to the sirocco which blew across the water, the air was cool and sweet.

He had remembered his sensation in the sea that gray morning of sirocco.