Usually means: Dry, dusty wind in Africa.
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  1. harmattan: Merriam-Webster
  2. harmattan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. harmattan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. harmattan: Collins English Dictionary
  5. harmattan: Vocabulary.com
  6. Harmattan, harmattan: Wordnik
  7. harmattan: Wiktionary
  8. harmattan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. harmattan: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Harmattan, harmattan: Dictionary.com
  11. Harmattan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Harmattan: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. harmattan: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. harmattan: Rhymezone
  15. Harmattan: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. harmattan: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. harmattan: FreeDictionary.org
  18. harmattan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. harmattan: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. harmattan: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. harmattan: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (harmattan)

noun:  A dry and dusty wind which blows from the Sahara over the Atlantic coast of West Africa in December, January and February, being a hot wind in some areas and a cold wind in others.
noun:  A season which spans the period in which the harmattan wind blows.

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