weather

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈwɛðɚ/
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• Hyphenation: weath‧er

Homophones

• wether
• whether (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

Singular weather

Plural none

1. (uncountable) The weather in a place is the air temperature, the number of clouds, and the amount of wind and rain or snow.
   • The weather conditions at the airport are bad. I don't think the plane will be able to fly.
   • The radio says the hot summer weather is going to continue for a few more days.

Verb

Plain form weather

Third-person singular weathers

Past tense weathered

Past participle weathered

Present participle weathering

1. (transitive) To weather is to be be changed by the effects of sun, wind, ice or rain.

   The old house had weathered badly.