Noun: monsoon
| Singular | monsoon |
| Plural | monsoons |
Sample Sentences
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Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge. [2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:]
Nouns inflected like monsoon
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese monção and Dutch moesson, from Arabic مَوْسِم (mawsim, “season”), from وَسَمَ (wasama, “to mark, to brand”). See: Portuguese Nouns '
monção', Dutch Nouns '
moesson'.
Verbs referencing "monsoon"
Finnish Nouns
monsuuni, German Nouns
Monsun, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
monsun, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
monsun, Czech Nouns
monzun.