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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Definitions monsoon noun  Any of a number of winds associated with regions where most rain falls during a particular season. Tropical rainy season when the rain lasts for several months with few interruptions. The rains themselves. Entire meteorological systems with such characteristics. Translations:  Dutch: moesson French: mousson(fr)f German: Monsun(de)m Etymology: From Arabic (ARchar, ÙÙÙ) (mausim, season) < (ARchar, ÙÙ) (wísama, to mark, to brand), through Portuguese and Dutch. <ref>http://www.bartleby.com/61/21/M0402100.html The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000 Houghton Mifflin</ref><ref>http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.7:1:1316.platts A Dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English Platts.</ref>        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish     Show 51015202550 results per page. Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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