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Meaning of Weathercock | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. A weather vane, sometimes in the form of a cockerel.
  2. One who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person.
    figuratively
  3. A kind of wind pump whose top behaves like a weather vane, moving with the wind direction, but which also has a wheel attached to measure wind speed.
    Canada, US

Equivalents

العربية الدوّارة
Български ветропоказател
Dansk vejrhane
Deutsch Wetterfahne Wetterhahn
Ελληνικά ανεμοδείκτης ανεμοδούρα
Esperanto ventoflago
Español veleta
Suomi kääntyilijä tuuliviiri
Français girouette
Gaeilge coileach gaoithe
Magyar szélkakas
Italiano banderuola galletto segnavento
日本語 風見鶏
한국어 바람개비
Македонски ветроказ
Nederlands weerhaan windhaan
Polski kurek
Português biruta de aeroporto cata-vento
Русский флюгер
Svenska vindflöjel
Tagalog banoglawin girimpula pabiling

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

Weathercocks Weathered weatherer weatherfish Weatherford weathergami

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