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Old Man Winter

Old Man Winter proper noun: the personification of winter.

old man winter: the personification of winter
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Proper noun

Old Man Winter

  1. The personification of winter.
    • Street child, street child, tell me where will you be goin' / When old man winter gets his horn and starts blowin'1972, Bobby Womack, “Harry Hippie”, in Understanding
    • […] the media like to humanize the weather, to suggest that we’re in some kind of grim battle with Old Man Winter when it’s cold or snowy […]2001, Sara Foss, The Daily Gazette: Speaking of the weather
    Synonyms:
    Father Winter

Examples of Old Man Winter in a sentence

  • It is interesting how we personalize or humanize certain forces which we cannot control like "Mother Nature" and "Old Man Winter".2002, Robert H. Claxton, Claxton on Williams and Duedall, Florida Hurricanes and Tropical Storms, 1871-2001:
  • They also have humanized time and weather, with such references as "Father Time" and "Old Man Winter", "Mother Earth" and "Hurricane Floyd".2003, Scotland Miles, Don't Take Me To Your Leader, →ISBN, pages 28–29:

Synonyms of Old Man Winter

Questions about Old Man Winter

What does Old Man Winter mean?
Old Man Winter means the personification of winter.
How do you use Old Man Winter in a sentence?
It is interesting how we personalize or humanize certain forces which we cannot control like "Mother Nature" and "Old Man Winter".
What part of speech is Old Man Winter?
Old Man Winter is a proper noun.

Words near Old Man Winter in the dictionary

  1. Old Malayalam
  2. old man
  3. Old Man of Coniston
  4. old man of the woods
  5. Old Man River
  6. Old Man Winter
  7. old man yaoi
  8. old man yelling at a cloud
  9. old man yelling at cloud
  10. old man yelling at clouds
  11. old man yelling at the clouds

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