weather
Forms
- Plural
- weathers
- present (v1)
- weather
- past (v2)
- weathered
- past participle (v3)
- weathered
- present participle
- weathering
- 3rd person singular
- weathers
Definitions
1.The short-term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.
- Human beings love to talk about the weather.
- We'll go for a walk when the weather's better.
- The garden party was called off due to bad weather.
2.Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.
- Wooden garden furniture must be well oiled as it is continuously exposed to weather.
3.The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.
- I am accustomed to cold weather.
- Yesterday, the weather was very nice.
- How long will this cold weather continue?
4.A situation.
- I am accustomed to cold weather.
- Yesterday, the weather was very nice.
- How long will this cold weather continue?
1.Facing towards the flow of a fluid, usually air.
1.To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist.
- "Come hither! come hither! my little daughter, / And do not tremble so; / For I can weather the roughest gale, That ever wind did blow."
2.To break down, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air.
3.To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects.
- The organisms […] seem indestructible, while the hard matrix in which they are embedded has weathered from around them.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1643
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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