weather-bound

1. 1.

   delayed or shut in by bad weather

   “weather-bound traffic”

   “irritable weather-bound children”

   Similarconfined

Questions about weather-bound

What does weather-bound mean?

weather-bound means "delayed or shut in by bad weather".

How many syllables are in weather-bound?

weather-bound has 4 syllables: we-a-ther--bound. The stress falls on "a".

Is weather-bound a common word?

weather-bound 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.