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   Mon·soon

   /mänˈso͞on/

   

   noun

   • 1. a seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and Southeast Asia, blowing from the southwest between May and September and bringing rain (the wet monsoon), or from the northeast between October and April (the dry monsoon).
   • ▪ the rainy season accompanying the wet monsoon.

   Word Origin late 16th century: from Portuguese monção, from Arabic mawsim ‘season’, from wasama ‘to mark, brand’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. monsoonal adjective

   Scrabble Points: 9

   • M

     3

   • O

     1

   • N

     1

   • S

     1

   • O

     1

   • O

     1

   • N

     1

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