weather

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation

   they were hoping for good weather

2. 2
   verb

   change under the action or influence of the weather

   A weathered old hut

3. 3
   noun

   The short-term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.

   What's the weather like today?

4. 4
   noun

   Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.

   Wooden garden furniture must be well oiled as it is continuously exposed to weather.

5. 5
   noun

   The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   A storm; a tempest.

   What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud / My thoughts presage!

7. 7
   adj

   Facing towards the flow of a fluid, usually air.

   weather side, weather helm

8. 8
   verb

   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.

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…