Other forms: hurricanes
A hurricane is a giant spinning storm that forms over warm ocean and brings extreme winds and rain. Hurricane season, a category four hurricane, the hurricane made landfall on Tuesday.
The same storm has three names depending on where it forms: hurricane in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific, typhoon in the western Pacific, and cyclone in the Indian Ocean. They are the same weather system. Hurricanes are graded one to five on the Saffir-Simpson scale and given names from a rotating list. Note that hurricane is also used loosely for any very violent wind, and that force twelve on the Beaufort scale is called hurricane force.
1nounhurricaneA very violent spinning tropical storm.
“The hurricane took the roof off half the street.”
2nounwindA wind of the highest force on the Beaufort scale.
“Gusts reached hurricane force overnight.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
hurricane is a violent storm.
Also accepted in games: typhoon, cyclone
Spanish huracán came from a Taino word of the Caribbean — the name of a storm god. It is one of the few words English has taken from the languages of the pre-Columbian Caribbean, alongside canoe, hammock and barbecue.
Spanish
huracán
English, today
hurricane
Borrowed from Spanish huracán. Borrowed from Spanish huracán, ultimately from tnq hurakā.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA