English Explanatory Dictionary

winds of change

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The inexorable process of inevitable societal and political change and progress over time.

Word forms

winds of change

Etymology

Coined by UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1960 in a speech advocating decolonization made in Cape Town, South Africa, which referred to the "wind of change […] blowing through this continent", later shifting to the plural "winds of change" in popular usage.

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