English Online Dictionary. What means weather? What does weather mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English weder, wedir, from Old English weder, from Proto-West Germanic *wedr, from Proto-Germanic *wedrą, from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰrom (=*we-dʰrom), from *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɛð.ə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwɛð.ɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɛðə(ɹ)
- Homophones: wether; whether (wine–whine merger)
- Hyphenation: wea‧ther
Noun
weather (countable and uncountable, plural weathers)
- The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.
- Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.
- (nautical) The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.
- (countable, figuratively) A situation.
- (obsolete) A storm; a tempest.
- (obsolete) A light shower of rain.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (state of the atmosphere): meteorology
- (windward side): weatherboard
Hyponyms
- dirty weather
- space weather
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
weather (not comparable)
- (sailing, geology) Facing towards the flow of a fluid, usually air.
- weather side, weather helm
Synonyms
- (nautical) windward
Antonyms
- (nautical, geology) lee
Verb
weather (third-person singular simple present weathers, present participle weathering, simple past and past participle weathered)
- To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects.
- (by extension) To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist.
- April 18, 1850, Frederick William Robertson, An Address Delivered to the Members of the Working Man's Institute
- You will weather the difficulties yet.
- To break down, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air.
- To cause (rocks) to break down by crushing, grinding, and/or dissolving with acids.
- (nautical) To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat 'round.
- (nautical) To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage.
- (falconry) To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.
Derived terms
- overweather
- unweather
- weather the storm
Translations
Further reading
- “weather”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- weather in Britannica Dictionary
- weather in Macmillan Collocations Dictionary
- weather in Sentence collocations by Cambridge Dictionary
- weather in Ozdic collocation dictionary
- weather in WordReference English Collocations
Anagrams
- weareth, wheater, whate'er, wreathe, whereat