weather vane

1. 1.

   mechanical device attached to an elevated structure; rotates freely to show the direction of the wind

   Synonymsweathervanevanewind vane

   Broadermechanical device

   Narrowerweathercockwind tee

Questions about weather vane

What does weather vane mean?

weather vane means "mechanical device attached to an elevated structure; rotates freely to show the direction of the wind".

What is another word for weather vane?

Close synonyms include weathervane, vane, wind vane. 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 vane a common word?

weather vane 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.