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# prevailing

«prevailing» in Mova's school dictionary: **most common or strongest at a certain time or place** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (prevailing); verb form (prevail, prevails, prevailed, prevailing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Prevailing means most common or strongest at a certain time or place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prevailing/#m1)

2) (geography) The prevailing wind is the wind that blows most often from one direction in a place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prevailing/#m2)

3) Prevailing is also a form of prevail, meaning winning in the end. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prevailing/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and weather lessons: in the UK and Ireland the prevailing wind is from the south-west. In formal writing «the prevailing view» means what most people think. Phrases: «prevailing wind», «prevailing conditions», «prevailing opinion».

### examples

- The prevailing wind here blows from the west. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prevailing/#x1)
- Trees lean away from the prevailing wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prevailing/#x2)
- Under the prevailing conditions, the race was cancelled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prevailing/#x3)
- The prevailing view is that homework helps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prevailing/#x4)
- Good sense is prevailing at last. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prevailing/#x5)
- Sailors used the prevailing winds to cross the ocean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prevailing/#x6)
- The prevailing weather is wet and mild. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prevailing/#x7)
- Kindness prevailing over anger is the moral of the story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prevailing/#x8)

### note

Mostly used before a noun: «prevailing wind». Wind is named by where it comes FROM: a west wind blows from the west towards the east — a common trap.

### Trees and pragmatics

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