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weatherman

[ weth-er-man ]

noun

plural weathermen.
  1. a person who forecasts and reports the weather; meteorologist.
  2. a weathercaster.


Weatherman

1

/ ˈɛðəˌæ /

noun

  1. a member of a militant revolutionary group active in the US during the 1970s
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

weatherman

2

/ ˈɛðəˌæ /

noun

  1. a person who forecasts the weather, esp one who works in a meteorological office
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Gender Note

See -man.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of weatherman1

First recorded in 1535–45; weather + man
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Word History and Origins

Origin of weatherman1

C20: name adopted from a line in Bob Dylan's song ``Subterranean Homesick Blues'': "You don't need a weatherman To know which way the wind blows."
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Example Sentences

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“You might as well sue the weatherman because you don’t like the weather,” a veteran First Amendment attorney told me.

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Even “Gordy the weatherman,” as many of us first knew Amos, on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” fit the bill.

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I grew up in southeastern Pennsylvania, so I'm used to seeing you as a weatherman, but discussing the weather wasn't always politically charged.

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After being discharged, he worked at small radio stations in Kentucky and Tennessee, spending several years as a staff announcer, talk show host and weatherman at Nashville’s WSM-TV.

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Rodriguez likes to say he has to beat the weatherman because so many people use apps or other forecasting tools to track the weather.

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