land breeze

English

Noun

land breeze (plural land breezes)

1. A breeze blowing off the land and out to sea, common at night.

   Synonym: land wind

   Antonym: sea breeze

   • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 165:

     The wind continued light and variable all day, with a calm in the evening before the land breeze sprang up.

Translations

an offshore breeze

• Catalan: brisa de terra (ca) f
• Māori: hauwhenua, tāwhenua, pararaki
• Polish: bryza (pl) f