weatherman
/wˈɛðɚmˌæn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.70 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person, especially a male one, who reports the weather conditions or forecasts.
Example Sentences
- "“Cool and brisk in the morning, warming to the low seventies by afternoon,” Ruby said anticipating the weatherman's words."
- "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."
- "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 for Hillary Clinton."
Etymology
Etymology tree English weather Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man Middle English -man English -man English weatherman From weather + -man.
Usage
- American usage
Inflected Forms
weathermen (plural)
weather man (alternative)