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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishweder,wedir, fromOld Englishweder, fromProto-West Germanic*wedr, fromProto-Germanic*wedrą, fromProto-Indo-European*wedʰrom (=*we-dʰrom), from*h₂weh₁-(“to blow”).

Cognates

Cognate withScotswather(“weather”),Saterland FrisianWeeder(“weather”),Cimbrianbèttar(“weather”),Dutchweder,weer(“weather”),GermanWetter(“weather”),Low GermanWeder(“weather”),LuxembourgishWieder(“weather”),Yiddishוועטער(veter,“weather”),Danishvejr(“weather”),Faroese,Icelandicveður(“weather”),Norwegian Bokmålvær(“weather”),Norwegian Nynorskveder,vêr(“weather”),Swedishväder(“weather”); also more distantly related toRussianвёдро(vjódro,“fair weather”) and perhapsAlbanianvrëndë(“light rain”).

Other cognates includeSanskritनिर्वाण(nirvāṇa,“blown or put out, extinguished”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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weather (countable anduncountable,pluralweathers)

  2. The short-term state of theatmosphere at aspecifictime andplace, including thetemperature,relative humidity,cloud cover,precipitation,wind, etc.
    What's theweather like today?
    We'll go for a walk when theweather's better.
    The garden party was called off due to badweather.
    Here and there, theweather on the sea allowed two of their friends to hear and see, too.
    • 1981,William Irwin Thompson,The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page118:
      Human beings love to talk about theweather.
  3. Unpleasant ordestructiveatmosphericconditions, and theireffects.
    Wooden garden furniture must be well oiled as it is continuously exposed toweather.
  4. (nautical) The direction from which thewind is blowing;used attributively to indicate thewindward side.
    • 1851 November 14,Herman Melville, chapter 3, inMoby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers; London:Richard Bentley,→OCLC:
      One complained of a bad cold in his head, upon which Jonah mixed him a pitch-like potion of gin and molasses, which he swore was a sovereign cure for all colds and catarrhs whatsoever, never mind of how long standing, or whether caught off the coast of Labrador, or on theweather side of an ice-island.
  5. (countable, figuratively) Asituation.
  6. (obsolete) Astorm; atempest.
    • 1697,Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, inJohn Dryden, transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […],→OCLC:
      What gusts ofweather from that gathering cloud / My thoughts presage!
  7. (obsolete) A light shower of rain.
    (Can wefind and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)

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Translations

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state of the atmosphere—see alsoday,‎night
unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions—see alsoelements
nautical: windward side of a ship
situation—seesituation
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Adjective

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weather (notcomparable)

  1. (sailing, geology) Facing towards theflow of afluid, usually air.
    weather side,weather helm
    • 1851 November 14,Herman Melville, chapter 35, inMoby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers; London:Richard Bentley,→OCLC,page174:
      Let me make a clean breast of it here, and frankly admit that I kept but sorry guard. With the problem of the universe revolving in me, how could I—being left completely to myself at such a thought-engendering altitude—how could I but lightly hold my obligations to observe all whale-ships’ standing orders, “Keep yourweather eye open, and sing out every time.”

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Verb

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weather (third-person singular simple presentweathers,present participleweathering,simple past and past participleweathered)

  1. Toexpose to the weather, or show theeffects of such exposure, or towithstand such effects.
  2. (by extension) To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist.
    • 1840 January 10,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[Ballads.] w:The Wreck of the Hesperus.”, inBallads and Other Poems, 2nd edition, Cambridge, Mass.: […] John Owen, published1842,→OCLC, stanza 8,page44:
      "Come hither! come hither! my little daughter, / And do not tremble so; / For I canweather the roughest gale, That ever wind did blow."
    • April 18, 1850,Frederick William Robertson,An Address Delivered to the Members of the Working Man's Institute
      You willweather the difficulties yet.
    • 2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, inBBC‎[1]:
      Some observers have contrasted China with the US, whose economy hasweathered the post-Covid recovery better. Until recently, Americans may have feared the day China would overtake them as the world's largest economy, but now analysts doubt if this will happen.
  3. To break down, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air.
  4. To cause (rocks) to break down bycrushing,grinding, and/ordissolving withacids.
    • 2020, Merlin Sheldrake,Entangled Life, page85:
      Lichens' ability toweather makes them a geological force, yet they do more than disolve the physical features of the world.
  5. (nautical) To pass towindward in a vessel, especially tobeat 'round.
    toweather a cape    toweather another ship
  6. (nautical) Toendure orsurvive an event or action withoutunduedamage.
    Joshuaweathered a collision with a freighter near South Africa.
  7. (falconry) To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.
    • 1773, James Campbell,A Treatise on modern faulconry:
      If your hawk is bad-weathered, that is, will not fit on your fist when the wind blows, but hales, and beats, and hangs by the jeſſes, ſhe has an ill habit of the worſt kind.
  8. Torain; tostorm.
    • 1982, Fredrik D. Bodin,How to Get the Best Travel Photographs:
      But there's no law against taking pictures when it'sweathering out there, and you're likely to produce some beautiful, if not different, images for your efforts. All that's needed is to dress your camera for the weather […]

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Translations

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to expose to weather
to breakdown of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air
to pass to windward
to endure an event

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