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Etymology
Old English weder

Pronunciation
IPA|/�w�ð�/
audio|en-us-weather.ogg|Audio (US)
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-�ð�(r)|-�ð�(r)

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

Adjective
weather

1. of, or relating to weather
2. nautical windward

Noun
weather

1. The state of the atmosphere, mainly with respect to its effects upon life and human activities. As distinguished from climate, weather consists of the short-term (minutes to months) variations of the atmosphere. Popularly, weather is thought of in terms of temperature, humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, brightness, visibility, and wind.
2. the short term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, humidity, cloud coverage and fall of precipitation, wind, etc.
3. unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and its effects.

Translations

Afrikaans: weer
Albanian: mot m
Arabic: ARchar|ط�س unicode|(�aqs) m
Catalan: temps m
Chinese: 天氣, 天� (ti�nqì)
Croatian: vrijeme n
Czech: po�así n (1)
Danish: vejr n
Dutch: weer n
Esperanto: vetero
Estonian: ilm
Finnish: sää (1), ilma (1)
French: temps m
Frisian: waar n
German: Wetter n
Greek: και��� (cerós) m
Hindi: म�सम (mausam) m, �त� (Ritu) m
Hungarian: id�járás
Icelandic: veður n
mid
Ido: vetero
Indonesian: cuaca
Interlingua: tempore, climate
Italian: tempo m, clima m
Japanese: 天� (���, tenki)
Korean: �� (nalssi)
Lithuanian: oras m
Maltese: temp m
Norwegian: vær n (1)
Polish: pogoda f
Portuguese: tempo m, clima m
Romanian: vreme f
Russian: погода (pogóda) f
Serbian: pogoda f
Slovene: vreme n
Spanish: tiempo m
Swedish: väder n (1)
Telugu: వాతావరణ� (vaataavaraNaM) (1)
Turkish: hava

Verb
en-verb

1. To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects.
2. nautical To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat 'round.
3. nautical To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage.

#: Joshua weathered a collision with a freighter near South Africa.

Translations
trans-top|to expose to weather
Czech: nechat zv�trat, zv�trat
trans-mid
Korean: ��� (baraeda)
trans-bottom

trans-top|to pass to windward
Finnish: nostaa tuuleen
trans-bottom

trans-top|to endure an event
Czech: p�e�kat, p�estát
Finnish: selvitä (jostakin)
trans-bottom

Derived terms
under the weather
weather eye
weatherman
weather gauge

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