weather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛð.ə/
ipa: /ˈwɛð.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɛðə(ɹ)
homophone: wether
homophone: whether (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: weathers
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”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots wather (“weather”), Saterland Frisian Weeder (“weather”), Cimbrian bèttar (“weather”), Dutch weder, weer (“weather”), German Wetter (“weather”), Low German Weder (“weather”), Luxembourgish Wieder (“weather”), Yiddish וועטער (veter, “weather”), Danish vejr (“weather”), Faroese, Icelandic veður (“weather”), Norwegian Bokmål vær (“weather”), Norwegian Nynorsk veder, vêr (“weather”), Swedish väder (“weather”); also more distantly related to Russian вёдро (vjódro, “fair weather”) and perhaps Albanian vrëndë (“light rain”).
Other cognates include Sanskrit निर्वाण (nirvāṇa, “blown or put out, extinguished”).
Senses: examples: text: What's the weather like today?
text: We'll go for a walk when the weather's better.
text: The garden party was called off due to bad weather.
text: Here and there, the weather on the sea allowed two of their friends to hear and see, too.
text: Human beings love to talk about the weather.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 118:
glosses: The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.
examples: text: Wooden garden furniture must be well oiled as it is continuously exposed to weather.
glosses: Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.
examples: text: One complained of a bad cold in his head, upon which Jonah mixed him a pitch-like potion of gin and molasses, which he swore was a sovereign cure for all colds and catarrhs whatsoever, never mind of how long standing, or whether caught off the coast of Labrador, or on the weather side of an ice-island.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.
glosses: A situation.
examples: text: What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud / My thoughts presage!
ref: 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A storm; a tempest.
glosses: A light shower of rain.
Synonyms: topics: meteorology
climatology
natural-sciences
word: state of the atmosphere
sense: windward side
word: weatherboard
Hyponyms: dirty weather
space weather
Derived terms: all-weather
all-weather friend
all-weather tire
all-weather tyre
aweather
bad weather
fair-weather
fair weather fan
fair weather friend
fair-weather friend
fair-weather friendship
falling weather
fine weather for ducks
good weather
how's the weather
how's the weather up there
in all weather
keep a weather eye open
lovely weather for ducks
macroweather
make fair weather
make heavy weather
make heavy weather of
make the weather
Merriweather
nice weather for ducks
nonweather
NWR
NWS
palaeoweather
paleoweather
stormy weather
stress of weather
talk about the weather
there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing
under the weather
unweather
weatherability
weatherable
weather anchor
weather a point
weather balloon
weather-beaten
weather-beatenness
weather-bit
weatherboard
weather bomb
weatherbound
weather-bound
weather bow
weather box
weather breeder
weathercast
weather chart
weather cloth
weather cock
weathercock
weather day
weather deck
weatherer
weather eye
weatherfish
Weatherford
weather forecast
weather forecaster
weather forecasting
weather front
weather gage
weather gauge
weather-gauge
weather-gaw
weathergirl
weatherglass
weather-glass
weather-gleam
weather guesser
weather house
weatherise
weatherish
weather it
weatherization
weatherize
weatherless
weatherlike
weather loach
weatherlore
weatherly
weathermaker
weathermaking
weatherman
weather map
weathermost
weatherology
weatherometer
weather out
weather pains
weatherperson
weatherproof
weather-prophet
weather radar
weather report
weather roll
weather satellite
weather ship
weather shore
weathersome
weather speak
weather station
weatherstrip
weather strip
weather summary
weathertight
weather-tight
weather vane
weather verb
weatherwear
weather-wise
weatherwise
weatherwoman
weatherworn
weathery
wet-weather