Noun: weather
| Singular | weather |
| Plural | weathers |
Sample Sentences
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What's the weather like today?
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We'll go for a walk when the weather's better.
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The garden party was called off due to bad weather.
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Here and there, the weather on the sea allowed two of their friends to hear and see, too.
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Human beings love to talk about the weather. [1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 118:]
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Wooden garden furniture must be well oiled as it is continuously exposed to weather.
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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. [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:]
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What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud / My thoughts presage! [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:]
Nouns inflected like weather
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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”).
2. Cognates
3. 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”).
4. Other cognates include Sanskrit निर्वाण (nirvāṇa, “blown or put out, extinguished”). See: Middle English Nouns '
weder', Old English Nouns '
weder', Dutch Nouns '
weder', German Nouns '
Wetter', Danish Nouns '
vejr', Icelandic Nouns '
veður', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
vær', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
veder', Swedish Nouns '
väder', Russian Nouns '
вёдро'.
Verbs referencing "weather"
Russian Nouns
ветер, German Nouns
Wetter, Latvian Nouns
vētra, Danish Nouns
vejr.