How do you use the word "weather" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "weather" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "weather": "When will you be back?" "It all depends on the weather." You'll soon get accustomed to this cold weather.

Weather Meaning

/ˈwɛðə/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThe short-term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.

nounUnpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.

Sentence Examples

"When will you be back?" "It all depends on the weather."

You'll soon get accustomed to this cold weather.

All flights have been cancelled because of bad weather.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

brave endure windward

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The old stone house managed to ____ the strong storm without any damage.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The ____ in the city is very unpredictable, so you should always carry an umbrella with you just in case today.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English weder, wedir, from Old English weder, from Proto-West Germanic *wedr, from Proto-Germanic *wedrą, from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰrom (=*we-dʰrom), from *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”). Cognates Cognate with Scots wather (“weather”), Saterland Frisian Weeder (“weather”), Cimbrian bèttar (“weather”), Dutch weder, weer (“weather”), German Wetter (“weather”), Low German Weder (“weather”), Luxembourgish Wieder (“weather”), Yiddish וועטער (veter, “weather”), Danish vejr (“weather”), Faroese, Icelandic veður (“weather”), Norwegian Bokmål vær (“weather”), Norwegian Nynorsk veder, vêr (“weather”), Swedish väder (“weather”); also more distantly related to Russian вёдро (vjódro, “fair weather”) and perhaps Albanian vrëndë (“light rain”). Other cognates include Sanskrit निर्वाण (nirvāṇa, “blown or put out, extinguished”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Human beings love to talk about the weather." — 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 118:

"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 ice-island." — 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:

"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:

"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 your weather eye open, and sing out every time.”" — 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 35, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 174:

"The organisms […] seem indestructible, while the hard matrix in which they are embedded has weathered from around them." — 1856, Hugh Miller, The Cruise of the Betsey:

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