breeze

noun
/bɹiːz/

A light, gentle wind.

Example

“The breeze rustled the papers on her desk.”

Other meanings

Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.
“After studying Latin, Spanish was a breeze.”
An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.
“The discovery produced a breeze.”

Synonyms

gentle wind
air

Example sentences

“He opened the window to feel the breeze.”
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Word history

From Middle English "brees" (wind).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “breeze” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.