Adjacent Words

downwind definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: towards the side away from the wind [syn: downwind, lee] adv
1: with the wind; in the direction the wind is blowing; "they flew downwind" [ant: against the wind, into the wind, upwind]
2: away from the wind; "they were sailing windward" [syn: windward, downwind] [ant: leeward, upwind]

Merriam Webster's

adverb or adjective Date: 1826 in the direction that the wind is blowing

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & adv. in the direction in which the wind is blowing.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If something moves downwind, it moves in the same direction as the wind. If something is downwind, the wind is blowing towards it. He attempted to return downwind to the airfield. ? upwind ADV: ADV after v, be ADV, oft ADV of n