weather
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: falconry
geography
geology
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
natural-sciences
nautical
sailing
transport
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: weathers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: weathers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: weathering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: weathered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: weathered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The short-term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: What's the weather like today?
We'll go for a walk when the weather's better.
The garden party was called off due to bad weather.
Here and there, the weather on the sea allowed two of their friends to hear and see, too.
Human beings love to talk about the weather.
gloss: Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Wooden garden furniture must be well oiled as it is continuously exposed to weather.
gloss: The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A situation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
gloss: A storm; a tempest.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud / My thoughts presage!
gloss: A light shower of rain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Facing towards the flow of a fluid, usually air.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: weather side, weather helm
Let me make a clean breast of it here, and frankly admit that I kept but sorry guard. With the problem of the universe revolving in me, how could I—being left completely to myself at such a thought-engendering altitude—how could I but lightly hold my obligations to observe all whale-ships’ standing orders, “Keep your weather eye open, and sing out every time.”
gloss: To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects.
pos: verb
examples: The organisms […] seem indestructible, while the hard matrix in which they are embedded has weathered from around them.
[An eagle] soaring through his wide empire of the air / To weather his broad sails.
gloss: To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
examples: "Come hither! come hither! my little daughter, / And do not tremble so; / For I can weather the roughest gale, That ever wind did blow."
April 18, 1850, Frederick William Robertson, An Address Delivered to the Members of the Working Man's Institute
You will weather the difficulties yet.
Some observers have contrasted China with the US, whose economy has weathered the post-Covid recovery better. Until recently, Americans may have feared the day China would overtake them as the world's largest economy, but now analysts doubt if this will happen.
gloss: To break down, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air.
pos: verb
gloss: To cause (rocks) to break down by crushing, grinding, and/or dissolving with acids.
pos: verb
examples: Lichens' ability to weather makes them a geological force, yet they do more than disolve the physical features of the world.
gloss: To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat 'round.
pos: verb
examples: to weather a cape    to weather another ship
gloss: To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage.
pos: verb
examples: Joshua weathered a collision with a freighter near South Africa.
gloss: To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.
pos: verb
examples: If your hawk is bad-weathered, that is, will not fit on your fist when the wind blows, but hales, and beats, and hangs by the jeſſes, ſhe has an ill habit of the worſt kind.
gloss: To rain; to storm.
pos: verb
examples: But there's no law against taking pictures when it's weathering out there, and you're likely to produce some beautiful, if not different, images for your efforts. All that's needed is to dress your camera for the weather[…]
Synonyms: state of the atmosphere
Antonyms: lee
Derived words: 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
spell of weather
stormy weather
stress of weather
talk about the weather
there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing
under the weather
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
weather pronoun
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
unweather
overweather
weather the storm
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: přečkat
lang: Czech
word: přestát
lang: Dutch
word: doorstaan
lang: Finnish
word: selvitä (jostakin)
lang: German
word: überstehen
lang: Italian
word: superare
lang: Japanese
word: 乗り切る
roman: norikiru
lang: Portuguese
word: aguentar
lang: Swedish
word: uthärda
lang: Swedish
word: utstå
lang: Swedish
word: genomlida
lang: Swedish
word: övervara