Noun: zephyr
Pronunciation: (ze-fu(r))
Zephyr meaning: The west wind; poetically, any soft, gentle breeze. Usually refreshing slight wind.
Synonyms: air, breeze, gentle wind, waft.
Quotations:
- Grover Cleveland – I would rather be the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.
- Thomas Gray – Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, while proudly rising o’er the azure realm in gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm.
- Thomas Hood- And soon their hushing dances languished to a stand, like midnight leaves when, as the zephyrs swoon, all on their drooping stems they sink unfanned.
- A winter zephyr gently stirred my hair.
- The zephyr was cooled by the river.
- Now spring restores the balmy heat, now zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
- There wasn’t even a zephyr of wind. It was unbelievable. I can’t imagine it being any better out there.
- Parting they seemed to tread upon the air,twin roses by the zephyr blown apart.Only to meet again more close.
- The radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere.
- A soft zephyr was softly blowing the tree branches, and everything was quiet.
- Their magenta leaves swayed from the gentle zephyr that crossed their path.
- The weather condition is too good to play. We are seeing gentle zephyrs cooled by the nearby lake.