Other forms: cyclones
A cyclone is a huge spinning storm system. A tropical cyclone, cyclone season, the cyclone made landfall.
The same storm has three names by ocean: hurricane in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific, typhoon in the western Pacific, cyclone in the Indian Ocean and around Australia. All three spin — anticlockwise north of the equator and clockwise south of it — because of the earth's rotation. Note anticyclone, which is the opposite and brings settled weather; and that a cyclone is also a type of dust separator.
1nouncycloneA huge spinning storm system.
“The cyclone tore roofs off houses and flooded the villages along the coast.”
cyclone is a storm system.
The word was coined in the 1840s by Henry Piddington from a Greek root about circles — either kuklos, a wheel, or kukloo, to go round. He wanted one word for the rotating storms he was studying.
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coined by Q3133011, probably in the 1840s, and based on some term in Ancient Greek -. Sources disagree on the date and on which Ancient Greek term, though it had to be something derived from either κύκλος (“circle, wheel”) or κυκλόω (“go around in a circle, form a circle, encircle”), for example the present active participle κυκλῶν. See cycle and wheel.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA