weather vane

See also: weathervane

English

Alternative forms

• weathervane

Noun

weather vane (plural weather vanes)

1. A mechanical device rotating around one axis and attached to an elevated object such as a roof for showing the direction of the wind.
   • 1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

     From the graveyard gate one can count a dozen gayly painted farmhouses; the gilded weather-vanes on the big red barns wink at each other across the green and brown and yellow fields.

Synonyms

• weathercock

Related terms

• anemoscope
• vane
• weather
• weathercock

Translations

a device showing the direction of the wind

• Catalan: penell m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 風標／风标 (zh) (fēngbiāo), 风标 (zh) (fēngbiāo)

• Danish: vindfløj c, vejrhane c
• Dutch: windwijzer (nl)
• Esperanto: ventoflago
• Finnish: tuuliviiri (fi)
• French: girouette (fr) f
• German: Wetterfahne (de) f, Windfahne f
• Greek: ανεμοδείκτης (el) m (anemodeíktis)
• Hungarian: szélkakas (hu)
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• Italian: banderuola (it) f
• Japanese: 風見鶏 (kazamidori)
• Macedonian: ветроказ m (vetrokaz)
• Polish: wiatrowskaz (pl) m
• Portuguese: cata-vento (pt) m, ventoinha (pt) f, catavento (pt) m
• Russian: флю́гер (ru) m (fljúger)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ветроказ m

  Roman: vetrokaz m

• Slovene: vetrokaz m
• Spanish: veleta (es) f
• Swedish: vindflöjel (sv) c

See also

• windsock, wind sock