cold wave

1. 1.

   a wave of unusually cold weather

   Broaderwave

Questions about cold wave

What does cold wave mean?

cold wave means "a wave of unusually cold weather".

Is cold wave a common word?

cold wave is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.