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Definition

rainy season in southern Asia when wind blows from the southwest

We didn't extend our trip to visit India because it was the start of the monsoon system.

monsoon = rainy season in southern Asia when wind blows from the southwest

She had forgotten just how damp the monsoon air in Ayemenem could be.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things

monsoon = rainy season in southern Asia

The monsoons came late to the desert, and I was glad.
Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
We were in the middle of a monsoon.
Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl -- Beautiful Creatures
All windows and doors were slammed tight shut, because this was monsoon rain, driving in, right across the country from the southwest.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
Maybe if she just waited out the monsoon.
Marissa Meyer -- Cinder
The final beat up before the monsoon had come.
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
We normally don't have monsoons in Swat and at first we were happy, thinking the rain would mean a good harvest.
Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala
Monsoons could be ahead!
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
That was in the monsoon holidays, after he had taken the prize for mathematics.
Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
He heard the rumors and the mortars and felt the monsoon heat and heard the universal slogan of the war.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
A scandal that starts here and reverberates to East Washington will come back on us like a monsoon.
J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
But in early May, we hoped, the approach of the monsoon from the Bay of Bengal would force the jet stream north into Tibet.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
"The monsoon breaks up early this year," he remarked conversationally, somewhere behind me.
Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
The cats parted like clouds of dust in a monsoon, and an ancient man, gray-haired and white-bearded, moved through them to the beach.
James A. Owen -- Here, There be Dragons
But all they've got in the Pacific is jungles and monsoons, I'd rot there.'
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
That could only mean the monsoon, blowing in from India.
Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea
Couldn't even get television during monsoon.
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
During the easterly monsoon season, birds of paradise lose the magnificent feathers around their tails that naturalists call 'below–the–wing' feathers.
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
A monsoon swept in, soaking the tense and terrified boys.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers

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