| n. | 1. | Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind, etc. |
| 2. | An unexpected legacy, or other gain. |
| Noun | 1. | windfall - fruit that has fallen from the tree |
| 2. | windfall - a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed lik an assembly line" |