cold
Forms
- Comparative
- colder
- Superlative
- coldest
- Plural
- colds
Definitions
1.Having a low temperature.
- A cold wind whistled through the trees.
- As cold waters to a thirstie soule: so is good newes from a farre countrey.
- I had always supposed that playboys didn't give a hoot for anything except blondes and cold bottles.
2.Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
- She was so cold she was shivering.
3.Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
- She shot me a cold glance before turning her back.
- At the end of a week, she could bear the suspense no longer, and so went humbly to her old home and sought forgiveness. She was not repulsed, but her reception was cold; and this hurt her almost as badly.
4.Causing the air to be cold.
- The forecast is that it will be very cold today.
1.A condition of low temperature.
- Come in, out of the cold.
2.A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
- The former politician was left out in the cold after his friends deserted him.
3.A common, usually harmless, usually viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
4.Rheum; sleepy dust.(slang)
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1021
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
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Etymology
Inherited from Middle English cold, from Anglian Old English cald. The West Saxon form, ċeald (“cold”), survived as early Middle English cheald, cheld, or chald. Both descended from Proto-West Germanic *kald, from Proto-Germanic *kaldaz (“cold”), a participle form of *kalaną (“to be cold, to freeze”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to be cold, to freeze”).