wind – English noun declension

English noun forms of wind

Noun: wind
Singularwind
Pluralwinds

Sample Sentences

  • The wind blew through her hair as she stood on the deck of the ship.
  • As they accelerated onto the motorway, the wind tore the plywood off the car's roof-rack.
  • The winds in Chicago are fierce.
  • There was a sudden gust of wind, on which spores were borne away.
  • The window was banging in the wind.
  • Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles. [2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:]
  • the wind of a cannon ball
  • the wind of a bellows
  • After the second lap he was already out of wind.
  • The fall knocked the wind out of him.
  • to catch wind of something
  • Steve caught wind of Martha's dalliance with his best friend.
  • Police got wind of the lottery, tried to track it down. [1953 August 6, Jet, volume 4, Johnson Publishing Company, →ISSN, page 22:]
  • the wind of change
  • But many of those issues failed to draw Spanish voters, or even scared them, and the country’s election results went contrary to Europe’s political winds. [2023 July 24, Jason Horowitz, “What the Collapse of Spain’s Far Right Means Going Forward”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
  • to pass wind
  • Their instruments were various in their kind, / Some for the bow, and some for breathing wind. [1700, [John] Dryden, “The Flower and the Leaf: Or, The Lady in the Arbour. A Vision.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:]
  • the four winds
  • Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 37:9:]
  • At daylight I found we were; in a beautiful little harbour, formed by a coral reef about two hundred yards from shore, and perfectly secure in every wind. [1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 98:]
  • When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • Nor think thou with wind / Of airy threats to awe. [1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. [1946, George Orwell, Politics and the English Language:]
  • I don't know, man, must've been the wind.
  • Zack be blaming the wind with this one...😭🙏 [2026 June 23, @CaitlynShellshock, Comment on How They Simulated A Nuclear Blast In Terminator 2 by @zackdfilms:]
  • Invest in wind for example through the municipality's energy company [2019 November 18, Landström, Mariko, Tynkkynen, Oras, Leinonen, Tatu, Peljo, Janne, Nordic Green to Scale for Cities and Communities: How far could we go simply by scaling up already proven climate solutions?, Nordic Council of Ministers, →ISBN, page 43:]
  • In China, onshore wind is cheaper than gas-fired power, at $77 per MWh versus $113, but it is much more expensive still than coal-generated electricity, at $44, while solar PV power is at $109. [2019 October 17, K. R. Rao, Wind Energy for Power Generation: Meeting the Challenge of Practical Implementation, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 383:]
  • And a rapid move to solar and wind is being achieved by taking the fossil fuel companies out of the energy equation [2021 June 29, Cynthia Kaufman, The Sea Is Rising and So Are We: A Climate Justice Handbook, PM Press, →ISBN:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English wynd, wind, from Old English wind (“wind”), from Proto-West Germanic *wind, from Proto-Germanic *windaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥tos (“wind”), from earlier *h₂wéh₁n̥ts (“wind”), derived from the present participle of *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Yola weend, wyeene (“wind”), North Frisian win, winj (“wind”), Saterland Frisian Wíend (“wind”), West Frisian wyn (“wind”), Alemannic German wend, wind, winn, wénn (“wind”), Bavarian bint, Wind (“wind”), Cimbrian and Mòcheno bint (“wind”), Dutch wind (“wind”), German and German Low German Wind (“wind”), Luxembourgish Wand (“wind”), Yiddish ווינט (vint, “wind”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish vind (“wind”), Faroese and Icelandic vindur (“wind”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌽𐌳𐍃 (winds, “wind”), Latin ventus (“wind”), Welsh gwynt (“wind”), Sanskrit वात (vā́ta, “wind”), Russian ве́тер (véter, “wind”), perhaps Albanian bundë (“strong damp wind”). Doublet of athlete, vent, weather and nirvana. See: Old English Nouns 'wind', Dutch Nouns 'wind', Gothic Nouns '𐍅𐌹𐌽𐌳𐍃', Latin Nouns 'ventus'.

Verbs referencing "wind"

Latin Nouns ventus, German Nouns Wind, Old Norse Nouns vinda, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns vind, Swedish Nouns vind, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns vinde.