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Webster 1913 Edition

monsoon

mon-soon′

(mŏn-soōn′)
,
Noun.
[Malay
mūsim
, fr. Ar.
mausim
a time, season: cf. F.
monson
,
mousson
, Sr.
monzon
, Pg.
monção
, It.
monsone
.]
A wind blowing part of the year from one direction, alternating with a wind from the opposite direction; – a term applied particularly to periodical winds of the Indian Ocean, which blow from the southwest from the latter part of May to the middle of September, and from the northeast from about the middle of October to the middle of December.

Webster 1828 Edition

Monsoon

MONSOON'

,
Noun.
A periodical wind, blowing six months from the same quarter or point of the compass, then changing and blowing the same time from the opposite quarter. The monsoons prevail in the East Indies, and are called also trade winds. But we usually give the denomination of trade winds to those which blow the whole year from the same point, as the winds within the tropics on the Atlantic.

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