See leeward in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"word": "benedenwinds"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "on the side sheltered from the wind",
"word": "lijzijde"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "on the side sheltered from the wind",
"word": "lijwaarts"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "on the side sheltered from the wind",
"word": "suojanpuoleinen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "on the side sheltered from the wind",
"topics": [
"nautical",
"transport"
],
"word": "leenpuoleinen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "on the side sheltered from the wind",
"word": "sous le vent"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "on the side sheltered from the wind",
"word": "ao socairo"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "on the side sheltered from the wind",
"word": "a sotavento"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "on the side sheltered from the wind",
"word": "leewärts gelegen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "on the side sheltered from the wind",
"word": "windabwärts gelegen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "on the side sheltered from the wind",
"word": "windabgewandt gelegen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "on the side sheltered from the wind",
"word": "mit dem Wind gelegen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "on the side sheltered from the wind",
"word": "unter dem Winde gelegen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ypínemos",
"sense": "on the side sheltered from the wind",
"word": "υπήνεμος"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "on the side sheltered from the wind",
"word": "sottovento"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "on the side sheltered from the wind",
"word": "zawietrzny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "on the side sheltered from the wind",
"word": "sotavento"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podvétrennyj",
"sense": "on the side sheltered from the wind",
"word": "подве́тренный"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "on the side sheltered from the wind",
"word": "zavetrn"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "on the side sheltered from the wind",
"word": "sotavento"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "on the side sheltered from the wind",
"word": "lä"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "on the side sheltered from the wind",
"word": "rüzgâraltı"
}
],
"word": "leeward"
}
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"antonyms": [
{
"word": "windward"
}
],
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"Terms with Armenian translations",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Norman translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
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"Terms with Slovene translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
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"form": "more leeward",
"tags": [
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]
},
{
"form": "most leeward",
"tags": [
"superlative"
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"ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 23, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:",
"text": "Some hours after midnight, the Typhoon abated so much, that through the strenuous exertions of Starbuck and Stubb—one engaged forward and the other aft—the shivered remnants of the jib and fore and main-top-sails were cut adrift from the spars, and went eddying away to leeward, like the feathers of an albatross, which sometimes are cast to the winds when that storm-tossed bird is on the wing.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "ca. 1909, Mark Twain, ;;Letters from the Earth Letter VIII:",
"text": "No lady goat is safe from criminal assault, even on the Sabbath Day, when there is a genteman goat within three miles to leeward of her and nothing in the way but a fence fourteen feet high[…]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"Away from the direction from which the wind is blowing; downwind."
],
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"downwind",
"downwind"
]
]
}
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"ipa": "/ˈliːwəd/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈl(j)uːəd/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
],
"topics": [
"nautical",
"transport"
]
},
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"ipa": "/ˈliwɚd/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈluːɚd/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
],
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"nautical",
"transport"
]
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{
"rhymes": "-iːwə(ɹ)d"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "away from the direction of the wind",
"word": "benedenwinds"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "away from the direction of the wind",
"word": "lijzijds"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "away from the direction of the wind",
"word": "lijwaarts"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "away from the direction of the wind",
"word": "alatuuleen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "away from the direction of the wind",
"word": "leewärts"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "away from the direction of the wind",
"word": "windabwärts"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "away from the direction of the wind",
"word": "windabgewandt"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "away from the direction of the wind",
"word": "mit dem Wind"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "away from the direction of the wind",
"word": "unter dem Winde"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ypinémos",
"sense": "away from the direction of the wind",
"word": "υπηνέμως"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ypínema",
"sense": "away from the direction of the wind",
"word": "υπήνεμα"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "apánema",
"sense": "away from the direction of the wind",
"word": "απάνεμα"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "away from the direction of the wind",
"word": "sottovento"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "away from the direction of the wind",
"word": "bord du vent"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "away from the direction of the wind",
"word": "souos l'vent"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "po vetru",
"sense": "away from the direction of the wind",
"word": "по ветру"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "za vítrom",
"sense": "away from the direction of the wind",
"word": "за ві́тром"
}
],
"word": "leeward"
}
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