weather

Meaning

Noun

1. The short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.
2. Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.
3. The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.
4. A situation.
5. (obsolete) A storm; a tempest.
6. (obsolete) A light shower of rain.

Adj

Facing towards the flow of a fluid, usually air.

Verb

1. To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects.
2. To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist.
3. To break down, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air.
4. To cause (rocks) to break down by crushing, grinding, and/or dissolving with acids.
5. To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat 'round.
6. To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage.
7. To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.

Synonyms

climate

atmospheric conditions

time

⌚

sky

light

weather conditions

air

season

endure

atmosphere

overcome

brave

upwind

wind

atmospheric condition

tide over

persist

precipitation

conditions

get over

storm

get through

look of the sky

windward

astronomical phenomena

exposed to the wind

brave out

weather condition

situation

gale

good weather

go through

haze

heaven

hour

jostles

meteorological

pass through

period

punter

put up

ride across

roof

run

seasons

sickness

signs

sometimes

stand

stand for

station

🚉

steam

stick out

stomach

support

take

tense

tolerate

turn

ventilate

while

winter

⛷️

against the wind

cloudy sky

come up against

decolorise

decolourise

length of time

one-year

sail across

hold still for

visual flight rules

turn of affairs

sky colour

sky color

environment

into the wind

atmospheric precipitation

atomosphere

> nyadenga 2

abide

meteorological phenomenon

accept

🉑

aerate

bad weather

bear

🐻

breast

brook

ceiling

climatic

cold weather

collisions

condition

confront

cope

course of events

crashes

dare

decolorize

decolourize

digest

discolor

discolour

disease

elements

encounter

envisage

epidemic

fade

front

Hyphenated as

wea‧ther

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈwɛð.ə/

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 Saterland Frisian Weeder, West Frisian waar, Dutch weer, Low German Weder, German Wetter, Danish vejr, Swedish väder, Norwegian Bokmål vær, Norwegian Nynorsk vêr, Icelandic veður; 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”).