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# monsoon

«monsoon» in Mova's school dictionary: **A wind in South Asia and nearby places that changes…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a monsoon, monsoons)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A wind in South Asia and nearby places that changes direction with the seasons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monsoon/#m1)

2) The season of very heavy rain that this wind brings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monsoon/#m2)

3) (informal) Very heavy rain anywhere. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monsoon/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science: India, Bangladesh and northern Australia have monsoon seasons; the rain helps farms but can cause floods. Phrases: the monsoon season, monsoon rains.

### examples

- The monsoon brings heavy rain to India every summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monsoon/#x1)
- Farmers wait for the monsoon to water their rice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monsoon/#x2)
- During the monsoon, some roads flood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monsoon/#x3)
- Northern Australia has a wet season with monsoon rains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monsoon/#x4)
- It was like a monsoon outside — we got soaked! (informal) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monsoon/#x5)
- The monsoon winds change direction with the seasons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monsoon/#x6)
- So I stayed with him till the time of the monsoon, and every day we added to our store of ivory till all his ware-houses were overflowing with it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monsoon/#x7)

### note

Countable. The word means the wind and its season, not just one storm. Safety: monsoon floods are dangerous; never walk or drive through flood water.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «monsoon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/monsoon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.