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meteorology

noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˌmiːtɪəˈɹɒləd͡ʒi/
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  • US: /ˌmiːti.əˈɹɑləd͡ʒi/
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  • CMU ARPABET: M IY2 T IY0 ER0 AA1 L AH0 JH IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The science that deals with the study of the atmosphere and its phenomena, especially with weather and weather forecasting.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

Examples

  • study of meteorology
  • department of meteorology
  • She’s studying meteorology at university.
  • Meteorology helps us understand weather patterns and climate change.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The atmospheric phenomena in a specific region or period.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

Examples

  • meteorology report

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

the earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere (especially weather)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: earth science

Narrower terms: aerology, climatology, nephology

4

noun

Meaning 4

predicting what the weather will be

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: weather forecasting

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: prediction, foretelling, forecasting, prognostication

History

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μετεωρολογία (meteōrología), from μετέωρα (metéōra, “celestial phenomena”), nominalized from the neuter plural of μετέωρος (metéōros, “high in the sky”), + -λογία (-logía, “study of”). By surface analysis, meteor (“atmospheric phenomenon”) + -ology (“study of”). First attested in 1563.

Across languages

Translations

108 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: weerkunde — science
  • Albanian: meteorologjia — science
  • Arabic: عِلْم اَلطَّقْس (ʕilm aṭ-ṭaqs) — science
  • Armenian: օդերեւութաբանություն (ōderewutʻabanutʻyun) — science
  • Azerbaijani: meteorologiya — science
  • Basque: meteorologia — science
  • Belarusian: метэаралогія (mjetearalóhija) — science
  • Bengali: আবহাওয়াবিদ্যা (abohaōẇabidda) — science
  • Breton: meteorologiezh — science
  • Bulgarian: метеорология (meteorologija) — science
  • Burmese: မိုးလေဝသပညာ (mui:lewa.sa.pa.nya) — science
  • Catalan: meteorologia — science
  • Chinese Cantonese: 氣象學 /气象学 (hei3 zoeng6 hok6) — science
  • Chinese: 氣象學 /气象学 (khì-siōng-ha̍k) — science
  • Chinese Mandarin: 氣象學 /气象学 (qìxiàngxué) — science
  • Chinese Mandarin: 氣象 /气象 (qìxiàng) — science
  • Cornish: keweronieth — science
  • Czech: meteorologie — science
  • Danish: meteorologi — science
  • Dutch: weerkunde — science
  • Dutch: meteorologie — science
  • Esperanto: meteorologio — science
  • Esperanto: meteologio — science
  • Estonian: ilmastikuteadus — science
  • Estonian: meteoroloogia — science
  • Faroese: veðurfrøði — science
  • Finnish: meteorologia — science
  • Finnish: ilmatiede — science
  • Finnish: säätiede — science
  • French: météorologie — science
  • North Frisian: wääderkunde — science
  • West-Frisian: waarkunde — science
  • Galician: meteoroloxía — science
  • Georgian: მეტეოროლოგია (meṭeorologia) — science
  • German: Meteorologie — science
  • German: Wetterkunde — science
  • German: Witterungslehre — science
  • German: Wettrkunde — science
  • Greek: μετεωρολογία (meteorología) — science
  • Gujarati: હવામાનશાસ્ત્ર (havāmānśāstra) — science
  • Gujarati: વાયુશાસ્ત્ર (vāyuśāstra) — science
  • Hebrew: מטאורולוגיה (meteorológya) — science
  • Hindi: ऋतुविज्ञान (ŕtuvijñān) — science
  • Hindi: मौसम विज्ञान (mausam vijñān) — science
  • Hungarian: meteorológia — science
  • Hungarian: légkörtan — science
  • Hungarian: légtüneménytan — science
  • Icelandic: veðurfræði — science
  • Ido: meteorologio — science
  • Indonesian: meteorologi — science
  • Irish: meitéareolaíocht — science
  • Italian: meteorologia — science
  • Japanese: 気象学 (kishōgaku) — science
  • Japanese: 気象 (kishō) — science
  • Kazakh: метеорология (meteorologiä) — science
  • Khmer: នភាវិទ្យា (neaʔphie vityie) — science
  • Khmer: ឧតុវិទ្យា (uʔtoʔvityie) — science
  • Korean: 기상학 (gisanghak) — science
  • Northern Kurdish: meteorolojî — science
  • Kyrgyz: метеорология (meteorologiya) — science
  • Latvian: meteoroloģija — science
  • Limburgish: weerkunde — science
  • Lithuanian: meteorologija — science
  • Low German: Wederkunn — science
  • Macedonian: метеорологија (meteorologija) — science
  • Malay: kaji cuaca — science
  • Malay: meteorologi — science
  • Malayalam: അന്തരീക്ഷവിജ്ഞാനം (antarīkṣavijñānaṁ) — science
  • Māori: tirorangi — science
  • Māori: mātai tirorangi — science
  • Māori: mātai āhuarangi — science
  • Māori: mātai huarere — science
  • Marathi: हवामानशास्त्र (havāmānśāstra) — science
  • Mon: ကွက်မလ္ၚတ်ဗြဲကျာ — science
  • Mongolian: цаг уурын судлал (cag uuryn sudlal) — science
  • Norwegian Bokmål: meteorologi — science
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: meteorologi — science
  • Persian: هواشناسی (havâšenâsi) — science
  • Polish: meteorologia — science
  • Portuguese: meteorologia — science
  • Quechua: mit'a yachay — science
  • Romanian: meteorologie — science
  • Russian: метеороло́гия (meteorológija) — science
  • Scottish Gaelic: sgoil-aimsir — science
  • Serbo-Croatian: метеорологија — science
  • Serbo-Croatian: временословље — science
  • Serbo-Croatian: meteorologija — science
  • Serbo-Croatian: vremenoslovlje — science
  • Slovak: meteorológia — science
  • Slovene: vremenoslóvje — science
  • Slovene: meteorologija — science
  • Spanish: meteorología — science
  • Swahili: metorolojia — science
  • Swedish: meteorologi — science
  • Swedish: väderlekslära — science
  • Tagalog: meteorolohiya — science
  • Tajik: ҳавошиносӣ (havošinosi) — science
  • Tamil: வானிலையியல் (vāṉilaiyiyal) — science
  • Thai: อุตุนิยมวิทยา — science
  • Turkish: meteoroloji — science
  • Turkmen: meteorologiýa — science
  • Ukrainian: метеорологія (meteorolohija) — science
  • Uzbek: meteorologiya — science
  • Vietnamese: khí tượng học — science
  • Walloon: meteorolodjeye — science
  • Welsh: meteoroleg — science
  • Yiddish: מעטעאָראָלאָגיע (meteorologye) — science
  • Zazaki: meteoroloci — science
Real reading context

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