typhoon• I move into the Practice House during a typhoon.• But this contempt was like a typhoonblowing away all my resources and possessions.• The signing ceremony, fixed for 28 August, had to be postponed until 2 September because of a typhoon.• Suddenly a fiercetyphoondescends upon the Pequod.• Shimoda Harbour was close-packed with scores of fishing boats, gunnel to gunnel, taking refuge from the forecasttyphoon.• To go out in a Hong Kong typhoon is to experience an almost pleasurablemadness.• She could not believe that the typhoon winds of change could alter our family.• This is because the hottest time coincides with the typhoon season.
Origintyphoon
(1800-1900)touffan“typhoon”((16-19 centuries)), from Arabictufan“hurricane”, from Greektyphon“whirlwind”; influenced by Chinesedaai fong“great wind”