Definitions for typhoon

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typhoon ty·phoon

Spelling: [tahy-foon]

IPA: /taɪˈfun/

Typhoon is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in typhoon (hnoopty).

Definitions for typhoon

noun

1. a tropical cyclone or hurricane of the western Pacific area and the China seas.
2. a violent storm or tempest of India.
3. (initial capital letter) Military. a single-engine British ground attack aircraft of World War II. NATO's name for a class of nuclear-powered Soviet ballistic missile submarine carrying 20 multiwarhead missiles.

Origin of typhoon

1580-90; dialectal Chinese, akin to Chinese dàfēng great wind, altered by association with Greek tȳphôn violent wind

Examples for typhoon

Do you think we are going wrong, or that there is a typhoon within hail?

That was then - before last week's typhoon wreaked unprecedented devastation.

Another time, and we were caught in a typhoon off the north coast.

The men stayed behind in Candahug while the women escaped to higher ground when typhoon Haiyan moved in.

You can feel compassion for the victim of discrimination or the victim of typhoon Haiyan or for a drug addict.

When a typhoon is approaching vessels have to run to Cavite for shelter.

We was heaving cargo overboard like a leaky ship in a typhoon.

The deputy mayor defended his government from accusations that it did not do more to prepare its people for typhoon Haiyan.

And then he closed resolutely his entries: "Every appearance of a typhoon coming on."

typhoon fighter jets will patrol the skies, and Puma helicopters will be at the ready with airborne snipers.