weather

1. 1.

   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”

   “every day we have weather conditions and yesterday was no exception”

   “the conditions were too rainy for playing in the snow”

   Synonymsweather conditionconditionsatmospheric condition

   Broaderatmospheric phenomenon

   Narrowercold weatherfair weatherhot weatherthawprecipitationwaveelementswindatmospheregood weather

   meteorology

1. 1.

   towards the side exposed to wind

   Synonymsupwind

   Similarwindward

Other forms of weather

plural

weathers·

past tense

weatherred·

present participle

weatherring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about weather

What does weather mean?

weather means "face and withstand with courage". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in weather?

weather has 2 syllables: weat-her. The stress falls on "weat". In IPA it is /ˈwɛðɚ/.

What is another word for weather?

Close synonyms include endure, brave, brave out, weather condition, conditions. 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 weather a common word?

weather is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with weather?

1 word rhymes with weather. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.