'Billow' definitions:
Definition of 'billow'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Billow'
From: GCIDE
- Billow \Bil"low\, n. [Cf. Icel. bylgja billow, Dan. b["o]lge, Sw. b["o]lja; akin to MHG. bulge billow, bag, and to E. bulge. See Bulge.]
- 1. A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind. [1913 Webster]
- Whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A great wave or flood of anything. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Billow'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'billow'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bag,
- balloon,
- be poised,
- belly,
- belly out,
- bilge,
- bore,
- bouge,
- break,
- breakers,
- bug,
- bulge,
- chop,
- choppiness,
- chopping sea,
- comb,
- comber,
- crash,
- dash,
- dilate,
- dirty water,
- distend,
- eagre,
- ebb and flow,
- goggle,
- gravity wave,
- ground swell,
- heave,
- heavy sea,
- heavy swell,
- lift,
- lop,
- peak,
- pooch,
- pop,
- popple,
- pouch,
- pout,
- riffle,
- ripple,
- rise,
- rise and fall,
- roll,
- roller,
- rough water,
- round out,
- scend,
- sea,
- send,
- smash,
- surf,
- surge,
- swell,
- swell out,
- tidal bore,
- tidal wave,
- tide wave,
- toss,
- trough,
- tsunami,
- undulate,
- undulation,
- water wave,
- wave,
- wavelet,
- white horses,
- whitecaps