typhoon : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: typhoon	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for typhoon
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
typhoon n a tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Typhoon \Ty*phoon"\, n. [Earlier tuffoon, tuffon, Pg. tuf[atil]o, Ar. tuf[be]n a violent storm; probably fr. Gr. tyfw^n, tyfw^s, a violent whirlwind, that rushes upward from the earth, whirling clouds of dust (cf. {Typhus}); or perhaps from Chin. t'ai-fung a cyclonic wind.] A violent whirlwind; specifically, a violent whirlwind occurring in the Chinese seas.