{
    "term": "weather",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the condition of the atmosphere at a particular place and time, such as the temperature, and if there is wind, rain, sun, etc.",
            "sensetop": "in … weather",
            "labels": "(North American English)(British English)(British English)",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**cold/hot/warm/wet/dry weather**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**severe/extreme weather**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**good/bad weather**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Flights have been delayed because of the **inclement weather**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Weather conditions** are set to improve by Thursday."
                },
                {
                    "text": "concerns about changing **weather patterns**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We'll have the party outside, **weather permitting** *(= if it doesn't rain)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm not going out in this weather!",
                    "contextForm": "in … weather"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Did you **have good weather** on your trip?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The winter weather kept us from going out for a walk."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His flight was cancelled due to bad weather."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What sort of **weather** did you **have**?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "poor/fine weather"
                },
                {
                    "text": "What's the weather like?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've been enjoying this beautiful weather."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There's going to be a change in the weather."
                },
                {
                    "text": "if the weather holds/breaks *(= if the good weather continues/changes)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The weather is very changeable at the moment."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘Are you going to the beach tomorrow?’ ‘It depends on the weather.’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a weather report"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a weather map/chart"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The tent protected us from the worst of the weather."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Atlantic weather systems"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Bad weather threatened."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Deciding to brave the weather, he grabbed his umbrella and went out."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He swims in the sea every day, whatever the weather."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I sat outside as often as the weather allowed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I wanted to mend the roof before the cold weather set in."
                },
                {
                    "text": "If the weather holds out we could go swimming later."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was sunny until the weekend, but then the weather broke."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Next day the weather turned cold."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She packed all kinds of clothes to cope with the vagaries of the English weather."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She packed to cope with the vagaries of New York's weather."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Stormy weather prevented any play in today's tennis."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The fine weather brings out butterflies."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The plane crashed into the sea in adverse weather conditions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The weather closed in and the climbers had to take shelter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The weather looks beautiful today."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We hadn't bargained for such a dramatic change in the weather."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We'll go just as soon as this weather lets up."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We're having a barbecue next Saturday, weather permitting."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We've had great weather all week."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a spell of unseasonably warm weather."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an increase in extreme weather events"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the effects of global warming on the world's weather patterns"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don't know whether we'll go—it depends on the weather."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The weather was awful."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We'll have lunch outside, weather permitting."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Weather"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["beautiful", "excellent", "fair"],
                "… of weather": ["spell"],
                "verb + weather": ["enjoy", "have", "brave"],
                "weather + verb": ["clear", "clear up", "improve"],
                "weather + noun": ["conditions", "patterns", "system"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a change in the weather",
                    "in all weather",
                    "in all weather conditions"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a report of what the weather will be like, on the radio or television, in the newspapers or online",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to listen to/watch the weather"
                },
                {
                    "text": "And now for the weather."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I checked the weather this morning."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["TV, radio and news"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "if you say that it is brass monkeys or brass monkey weather, you mean that it is very cold weather",
            "labels": "(British English, slang)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "in all kinds of weather, good and bad",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She goes out jogging in all weathers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The lifeboat crews go out in all weather(s)."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to watch somebody/something carefully in case you need to take action",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Keep a weather eye on your competitors."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to seem to find something more difficult or complicated than it needs to be",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "People in this country make such heavy weather of learning languages."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "if you are or feel under the weather, you feel slightly ill and not as well as usual",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Health problems"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈweðə(r)/",
                "audio": "we/weather/weather__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈweðər/",
                "audio": "we/weather/weather__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English weder, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch weer and German Wetter, probably also to the noun wind1."
}