cyclone
noun/ˈsaɪkləʊn/
/ˈsaɪkləʊn/
- a violent tropical storm in which strong winds move in a circle
- The cyclone struck the village late last night.
Extra ExamplesTopics Weatherc1, The environmentc1- Cyclone Tracy hit Darwin on Christmas Eve, 1974.
- In 1974 Darwin was devastated by Cyclone Tracy.
- The islands have been devastated by cyclones in recent months.
- trees damaged in the cyclone
- Cyclones are anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere.
- The island was hit by a cyclone which caused considerable damage.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- tropical
- hit something
- destroy something
- devastate something
- …
- in a/the cyclone
- the eye of the cyclone
- (specialist) a weather condition in which the pressure of the air becomes lower, often causing wind and rain synonym depression (5)
- As cyclones move inland, they become an important source of rain.
Word Originmid 19th cent.: probably from Greek kuklōma ‘wheel, coil of a snake’, from kuklos ‘circle’. The change of spelling from -m to -n is unexplained.
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