cold spell

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   a spell of cold weather

   Synonymscold snap

   Broaderwhile

Questions about cold spell

What does cold spell mean?

cold spell means "a spell of cold weather".

What is another word for cold spell?

Close synonyms include cold snap. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cold spell a common word?

cold spell is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.