weathers

Noun

weather (countable and uncountable, plural weathers)

1. The short-term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.
   • What's the weather like today?
2. Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.
   • Wooden garden furniture must be well oiled as it is continuously exposed to weather.
3. The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.
   • 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 the weather side of an...1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   weatherboard

4. (countable, figuratively) A situation.
5. (obsolete) A storm; a tempest.
   • What gusts of weather from that gathering cloud / My thoughts presage!1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
6. A light shower of rain.

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