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Meaning of haar | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/hɑː(ɹ)/

Definitions

  1. Thick, cold, wet fog along the northeastern coast of Northern England and Scotland.
    Northern-England, Scotland, countable, especially, uncountable
  2. A municipality near Munich, Germany.
  3. A wind, especially one from the east, which blows in this fog.
    Scotland, countable, especially, uncountable

Examples

“The traffic noise used to be constant, at times as thick as the haar, the sea fog that sometimes rolls in here from the North Sea.”
“[…] westerly haar, which wraps everything up in white wool, and blots out sea and sky, and chokes the depressed wayfarer-not to speak of the penetrating chill which even in June goes down into the marrow of your bones, and makes the[…]”
“[An] easterly haar was blowing in off the sea, the cold wind bringing with it a thick fog that crawled under the collar and clung to the skin. Ahead, the road disappeared as the fog hid anything on either side of the hedges save for the[…]”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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