FAIR WEATHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fair weather mean? 

• FAIR WEATHER (noun)
  The noun FAIR WEATHER has 1 sense:

1. moderate weather; suitable for outdoor activities

  Familiarity information: FAIR WEATHER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAIR WEATHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Moderate weather; suitable for outdoor activities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

fair weather; sunshine; temperateness

Hypernyms ("fair weather" is a kind of...):

atmospheric condition; conditions; weather; weather condition (the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation)

 Context examples 

For thirty years, he said, I've sailed the seas and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul, provisions running out, knives going, and what not.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Fair weather was over, and there was nothing left but to return to the galley.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Sir John called on them as soon as the next interval of fair weather that morning allowed him to get out of doors; and Marianne's accident being related to him, he was eagerly asked whether he knew any gentleman of the name of Willoughby at Allenham.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

We had not sailed above three days, when a great storm arising, we were driven five days to the north-north-east, and then to the east: after which we had fair weather, but still with a pretty strong gale from the west. Upon the tenth day we were chased by two pirates, who soon overtook us; for my sloop was so deep laden, that she sailed very slow, neither were we in a condition to defend ourselves.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

"Only if Brooke is going to be a thermometer, I must mind and have fair weather for him to report."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was all fair weather in her world, and every morning she scrambled up to the window in her little nightgown to look out, and say, no matter whether it rained or shone, Oh, pitty day, oh, pitty day!

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)