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  • weatherman
    weatherman
    noun
    a person who forecasts and reports the weather; meteorologist.
  • Weatherman
    Weatherman
    noun
    a member of a militant revolutionary group active in the US during the 1970s

weatherman

American  
[weth-er-man] / ˈwɛð ərˌmæn /

noun

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

  2. a weathercaster.


Weatherman 1 British  
/ ˈwɛðəˌmæn /

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 British  
/ ˈwɛðəˌmæn /

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

Gender

See -man.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of weatherman

First recorded in 1535–45; weather + man


Example Sentences

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Contra Bob Dylan, sometimes you do need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

“After all, as Bob Dylan famously said, ‘You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.’

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

As Bob Dylan famously observed, you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025

And in a case of art fondly imitating life, Roker’s Al Hunter is a local weatherman with a penchant for dad jokes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2025

They looked with fervent anticipation, and the dead city lay dead for them alone, drowsing in a hot silence of summer made on Mars by a Martian weatherman.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

The frantic warnings of a Cosmic Weatherman go unheard as winter, confoundingly, follows spring, and summer arrives as a double cataclysm of fire and floods.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025

As the Cosmic Weatherman, John Mburu ably demonstrated how smoothly baroque arias for bass—regardless of their original subjects—can be repurposed as howls of despair about a modern apocalypse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025

The band signed to Epic Records after the success of Weatherman, but the relationship was short-lived and they had to crowd-fund the release of their next album.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024

Douglas County Prosecuting Attorney Matthew Weatherman said the information from the person who came forward is “rock-solid.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2024

You know, I have always been the Weatherman of Arkville, and, if I do say it, I have hit the mark every time.

From Puss Junior and Robinson Crusoe by David Cory

Where Santa Monica Boulevard crosses Vermont Avenue, the rain, as the weathermen reported dispassionately, “exceeded the computed maximum 50-year rainfall.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023

Without playing a game, Simmons is getting dunked on, from wrestlers to weathermen to Shaq, and there's no respite from the insults, not as long as he refuses to play for the Philadelphia 76ers.

From Fox News ● Oct. 8, 2021

Without playing a game, Simmons is getting dunked on, from wrestlers to weathermen to Shaq, and there’s no respite from the insults, not as long as he refuses to play for the Philadelphia 76ers.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2021

“I have relationships with weathermen throughout the company,” he says, laughing.

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2019

I’m in the land of concrete and weathermen.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

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