The areas with lowest precipitation are on the leeward side of the mountains.
Source: tatoeba (3379078)
Leeward
//ˈliːwəd//
Synonyms for "leeward" (47 found)
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49 translations across 23 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- հողմահակառակ adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
Belarusian
1 entries- падве́траны adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
Catalan
1 entries- sotavent adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 下風 /下风 adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
- 背風 /背风 adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
Czech
1 entries- závětrný adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
Dutch
4 entries- benedenwinds adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
- lijwaarts adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
- lijzijde adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
- benedenwinds adv (away from the direction of the wind)
Finnish
3 entries- leenpuoleinen adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
- suojanpuoleinen adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
- alatuuleen adv (away from the direction of the wind)
French
1 entries- sous le vent adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
Galician
2 entries- a sotavento adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
- ao socairo adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
German
4 entries- leewärts gelegen adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
- mit dem Wind gelegen adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
- unter dem Winde gelegen adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
- windabgewandt gelegen adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
Greek
4 entries- υπήνεμος adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
- απάνεμα adv (away from the direction of the wind)
- υπήνεμα adv (away from the direction of the wind)
- υπηνέμως adv (away from the direction of the wind)
Italian
2 entries- sottovento adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
- sottovento adv (away from the direction of the wind)
Lithuanian
1 entries- pavė̃jinis adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
Norman
2 entries- bord du vent adv (away from the direction of the wind)
- souos l'vent adv (away from the direction of the wind)
Polish
1 entries- zawietrzny adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
Portuguese
1 entries- sotavento adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
Russian
2 entries- подве́тренный adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
- по ветру adv (away from the direction of the wind)
Slovak
1 entries- záveterný adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
Slovene
1 entries- zavetrn adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
Spanish
2 entries- de sotavento adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
- a sotavento adv (away from the direction of the wind)
Swedish
1 entries- lä adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
Turkish
1 entries- rüzgâraltı adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
Ukrainian
2 entries- підві́тряний adj (on the side sheltered from the wind)
- за ві́тром adv (away from the direction of the wind)
Sample sentences
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Parts facing the oncoming flow are said to be windward, and parts facing away from the flow are said to be leeward.
Source: tatoeba (5325796)
Some hours after midnight, the Typhoon abated so much, that through the strenuous exertions of Starbuck and Stubb—one engaged forward and the other aft—the shivered remnants of the jib and fore and main-top-sails were cut adrift from the spars, and went eddying away to leeward, like the feathers of an albatross, which sometimes are cast to the winds when that storm-tossed bird is on the wing.
Source: wiktionary
No lady goat is safe from criminal assault, even on the Sabbath Day, when there is a genteman goat within three miles to leeward of her and nothing in the way but a fence fourteen feet high[…]
Source: wiktionary
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