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单词 weatherman
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weathermann.

Brit. /ˈwɛðəman/, U.S. /ˈwɛðərˌmæn/
Inflections: Plural weathermen Brit. /ˈwɛðəmɛn/, U.S. /ˈwɛðərˌmɛn/.
Forms: see weather n. and man n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: weather n., man n.1
Etymology: < weather n. + man n.1
1. A man who observes or makes a report about the weather. Now chiefly: a man who presents the weather forecast on radio, television, etc. Cf. weatherwoman n. 1.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > [noun] > one who studies or is skilled in meteorology
meteorologer1555
meteorologician1580
meteorologian1583
meteorologist1638
weatherling1656
aerologist1847
aerographer1849
skygazer1860
weather-lorist1905
Met1943
society > communication > broadcasting > broadcaster > [noun] > types of
co-host1908
announcer1922
newsreader1925
race-reader1926
newscaster1930
sportscaster1930
quizzee1933
school broadcaster1937
commentator1938
racecaster1938
sportcaster1938
femcee1940
record jockey1940
disc jockey1941
narrator1941
deejay1946
colourman1947
anchorman1948
host1948
jock1952
speakerine1957
presenter1959
linkman1960
anchorwoman1961
rock jock1961
anchor1962
jockey1963
voice-over1966
anchorperson1971
outside broadcaster1971
news anchor1975
talk-master1975
satcaster1982
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > study or science of weather > [noun] > weather prediction > broadcasting > one who
weather-forecaster1900
weather-casterc1904
1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 34 A good archer wyl fyrste wyth diligent vse and markynge the wether, learne to knowe the nature of the wynde.., how muche it wyll alter his shoote... Therefore in shootynge there is..muche difference betwixt an archer that is a good wether man, and an other that knoweth and marketh nothynge.
1848 Daily Crescent (New Orleans) 17 Oct. The celebrated Brooklyn weather man..is up all night watching the clouds and thermometer.
1954 H. Basso View from Pompey's Head i. 13 The weatherman on the radio said it was going to clear up. It'll probably be a nice afternoon.
1983 Listener 14 July 17/3 We asked the weatherman, Jack Scott, to demonstrate some of those extraordinary regional variations for us.
2020 Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 16 Apr. The current warm and wet weather will continue for at least the next two weeks, the weatherman said yesterday.
2. With capital initial (in singular and then chiefly in plural): (the name of) a radical militant organization active in the United States during the late 1960s and 1970s. Also (as a count noun): a male member of this organization. Now historical.The organization originally called itself Weatherman, its members quickly becoming known collectively as the Weathermen. In 1970, they issued a statement to the New York Times, in which they referred to themselves as the Weatherman underground (see quot. 1970). The organization is now often referred to as Weather Underground (see Weather Underground n. at weather n. Compounds 2).
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > political associations or societies > members of
Wiskinkie1800
funder1872
granger1875
Tammanyite1882
Bundist1907
America Firster1927
Bircher1961
Birchite1961
John Bircher1961
1969 Stanford Daily (Stanford Univ., Calif.) 1 July 1/3 The ‘weatherman’ group [of members of the Revolutionary Youth Movement]..took its name from Bob Dylan's lyric: ‘You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.’
1970 N.Y. Times 25 May 27/1 The statement, described as ‘a declaration of a state of war’ was said to be ‘the first communication from the Weatherman underground’.
1979 R. Perry Bishop's Pawn i. 23 The West was agreed that the IRA, the Weathermen, the Red Army Faction..were composed of criminals, terrorists and murderers.
2003 Nation 23 June 34/3 Yes, I knew some Weathermen in 1969, and no, I wanted no part of them or their..Days of Rage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022).

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weatherman
weatherman n. (a) one who observes the weather; now also spec. one who presents a weather forecast on radio, television, etc.; (b) (frequently with capital initial and in plural) (a member of) a violent revolutionary group in the U.S. (see quot. weather n.); cf. Weather Underground n. below.
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1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 34 Therefore in shootynge there is as muche difference betwixt an archer that is a good wether man, and an other that knoweth and marketh nothynge, as is betwixte a blynde man, and he that can se.
1901 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 23 Oct. 5/2 The ‘hot wave’, as the weather man calls it, was general along the coast and extended some way east.
1944 Sun (Baltimore) 15 Nov. 11/2 Nobody ever gets anywhere telling the weatherman how to behave.
1952 W. Stevens Let. 26 June (1967) 757 It did not go below 85° in N.Y. last night according to the weather man.
1970 Guardian 28 Oct. 13/3 The Weathermen have been in existence for just over a year, since the SDS [sc. Students for a Democratic Society] split of June, 1969... The Weathermen got their name from a line in a Bob Dylan song: ‘You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.’
1971 Times 15 Jan. 12/6 Could this country have acquired an Anglicized offshoot of the American Weatherman—or Weathermen as these violent urban guerillas are less accurately but probably more widely known?
1979 R. Perry Bishop's Pawn i. 23 The West was agreed that the IRA, the Weathermen, the Red Army Faction..were composed of criminals, terrorists and murderers.
1983 Listener 14 July 17/3 We asked the weatherman, Jack Scott, to demonstrate some of those extraordinary regional variations for us.
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