Wafture

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of wafting or waving; a beckoning or gesture.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of waving; a wavelike motion; a waft.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Something that is wafted.
  • noun. The act of wafting something.
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  • noun. the act of signaling by a movement of the hand
  • Word Usage
    "It seemed a glow to him, a warm and trailing vapor, ever beyond his reaching, though sometimes he was rewarded by catching at shreds of it and weaving them into phrases that echoed in his brain with haunting notes or drifted across his vision in misty wafture of unseen beauty."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    gesture  motion  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    waft