HOT WEATHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hot weather mean? 

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

1. a period of unusually high temperatures

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOT WEATHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A period of unusually high temperatures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("hot 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hot weather"):

scorcher (an extremely hot day)

sultriness (oppressively hot and humid weather)

 Context examples 

During hot weather, especially with high humidity, sweating just isn't enough.

(Heat Illness, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Previous research focused on how hot weather affects at-risk populations like the elderly and the very young.

(Hot Dorm Rooms Could Affect Students' Memory, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

The hot weather made him indolent, and he had shirked his studies, tried Mr. Brooke's patience to the utmost, displeased his grandfather by practicing half the afternoon, frightened the maidservants half out of their wits by mischievously hinting that one of his dogs was going mad, and, after high words with the stableman about some fancied neglect of his horse, he had flung himself into his hammock to fume over the stupidity of the world in general, till the peace of the lovely day quieted him in spite of himself.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

On the roof of my closet, not directly over the middle of the hammock, I ordered the joiner to cut out a hole of a foot square, to give me air in hot weather, as I slept; which hole I shut at pleasure with a board that drew backward and forward through a groove.

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

Symptoms usually appear in childhood and include meconium ileus, poor growth despite good appetite, malabsorption and foul bulky stools, chronic bronchitis with cough, recurrent pneumonia, bronchiectasis, emphysema, clubbing of the fingers, and salt depletion in hot weather.

(Cystic Fibrosis, NCI Thesaurus)