old man winter
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.79 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The personification of winter.
Example Sentences
- "Street child, street child, tell me where will you be goin' / When old man winter gets his horn and starts blowin'"
- "[…] the media like to humanize the weather, to suggest that we’re in some kind of grim battle with Old Man Winter when it’s cold or snowy […]"
- "It is interesting how we personalize or humanize certain forces which we cannot control like "Mother Nature" and "Old Man Winter"."
- "They also have humanized time and weather, with such references as "Father Time" and "Old Man Winter", "Mother Earth" and "Hurricane Floyd"."