Meanings
- The personification of winter.
Street child, street child, tell me where will you be goin' / When old man winter gets his horn and starts blowin'
1972, Bobby Womack, “Harry Hippie”, in Understanding3 more examples
[…] 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 […]
2001, Sara Foss, The Daily Gazette: Speaking of the weatherIt is interesting how we personalize or humanize certain forces which we cannot control like "Mother Nature" and "Old Man Winter".
2002, Robert H. Claxton, Claxton on Williams and Duedall, Florida Hurricanes and Tropical Storms, 1871-2001They also have humanized time and weather, with such references as "Father Time" and "Old Man Winter", "Mother Earth" and "Hurricane Floyd".
2003, Scotland Miles, Don't Take Me To Your Leader, →ISBN, pages 28–29Synonyms: Father Winter
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounThe personification of winter.
Cite this entry
Old Man Winter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Old%20Man%20Winter
“Old Man Winter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Old%20Man%20Winter. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Old Man Winter,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Old%20Man%20Winter.
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