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    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

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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

Coleman spent almost four decades as NBC4’s whimsical weatherman, a key player in what was arguably the most veteran broadcast news team in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 23, 2025

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

From Barron's Oct. 17, 2025

The weatherman is chattering, pointing at the colors with his stick.

From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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 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

Asked if he was confident in the case, Weatherman said, “It’s as good as a 1989 case can ever be.”

From Seattle Times Feb. 22, 2024

Since my accident, I decided to say yes to any opportunity that came my way, something that has seen me become a TV presenter on BBC Wales' Weatherman Walking.

From BBC Dec. 31, 2022

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

But he said he would not miss being on duty during settled periods of weather as they were "pleasant for most people, but boring for weathermen".

From BBC Aug. 5, 2023

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’m in the land of concrete and weathermen.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

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