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weatherman

weatherman noun: a person, especially a male one, who reports the weather conditions or forecasts.

Noun (1)

weatherman (plural weathermen)

  1. A person, especially a male one, who reports the weather conditions or forecasts.
    • “Cool and brisk in the morning, warming to the low seventies by afternoon,” Ruby said anticipating the weatherman's words.2014, Fern Michaels, Vegas Sunrise, Kensington Books, page [245]
    • We were watching the weather that night. The weather man couldn't even fathom what was about to be the worst flooding that we had ever experienced in our area.2012, Derra Byrd, 2 Losses 1 Divine Gift, Bloomington, IN: WestBow Press, page 11

Noun (2) capitalized: Weatherman

Weatherman (plural Weathermen)

  1. (US, historical) A member of the Weather Underground.
    • On the Clinton conference call this morning, Howard Wolfson—under rather aggressive questioning from Mother Jones' David Corn—said he didn't know how Hillary felt about her husbands pardons of two former Weathermen. But he drew a distinction by pointing out that no Weathermen ever held fundraisers...2008 April 18, Matthew Yglesias, “Knowing Which Way The Wind Blows”, in The Atlantic

Forms of weatherman

pluralweathermen
alternative formweather man
pluralWeathermen

Plural of weatherman: weathermen

Origin of weatherman

From weather + -man.

From the line you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Words formed from weatherman

Questions about weatherman

What does weatherman mean?
Weatherman means a person, especially a male one, who reports the weather conditions or forecasts.
What part of speech is weatherman?
Weatherman is a noun.
What is the plural of weatherman?
The plural of weatherman is weathermen.

Words near weatherman in the dictionary

  1. weatherly
  2. Weatherlys
  3. weathermaker
  4. weathermakers
  5. weathermaking
  6. weatherman
  7. weathermen
  8. weathermost
  9. weatherologist
  10. weatherologists
  11. weatherology

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Adapted from Wiktionary: weatherman (page history and authors); Weatherman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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