Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A northeaster.
Wiktionary
- n. An extratropical storm, usually found in coastal New England and Atlantic Canada, whose winds usually come from the northeast.
Etymologies
- Contraction of northeaster. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The unseasonably early winter storm, known as a "nor'easter" due to its north-easterly movement, was being called "Snowtober" and affected up to 60 million people.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“The shortfalls came even after past reports had faulted the company for its responses to large-scale power outages, including those conducted after Hurricane Gloria in 1985, a March 2010 nor'easter and this year's Tropical Storm Irene.”
The Wall Street Journal: Conn. Utility Misled Public After Storm
“This morning, I was alerted to a few tweets worried about a potentially bad low pressure system moving eastward that could become a nor'easter and damage the Eastern Seaboard Sunday into Sunday night.”
The Huffington Post: HUFFPOST HILL - Dems Deploy Payroll Tax Robots
“Another nor'easter is coming tomorrow, threatening to dump more snow on a winter-weary swath of the Northeast.”
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“He says Ida's appetite could reorganize off a Atlantic coast after mid-week, taking upon a proportions of a clever nor'easter.”
“The nor'easter is expected to bring eight to 14 inches of snow into New York beginning Tuesday night and continuing through Wednesday afternoon, according to meteorologists.”
The Huffington Post: City Declares Emergency As Snow Approaches
“On the back side of this storm strong winds funnel into this "pint size" developing nor'easter.”
The Washington Post: Forecast: Soaking wet with a bit of chill today
“After the recent nor'easter, Mr. Malloy stopped appearing alongside Mr. Butler, leaving the room when the power executive began to speak.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nor'easter’.
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Steroids
Nouns that end in "ster". The -er suffix (as in blaster) doesn't count.
hamster, filibuster, aster, master, mister, baluster, banister, barrister, monster, plaster, semester, bister and 56 more...
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Winter Words
Words that have to do with the Winter season.
snow, coat, hibernation, ice, christmas, cold, sleet, hail, december, january, evergreen, frost and 11 more...
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Aeolus's Vocabulary
Words concerning or relating to wind, air, sky, or heavens! Anything concerning Aeolus (King of the Winds) will be collected here.
aeromancy, zephyr, favonius, boreas, ether, etesian, empyrean, wind, breeze, gust, cyclone, nor'easter and 18 more...
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ecbrenner's list
flatline, luddism, apocalipstick, muttsucker, leviathan of fore..., flint, coryphaeus, donnybrook, bandwidth, bagpipe the mizen, cheesed off, asterism and 525 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, N
nurdled, naumachia, nystagmus, nephology, nigh, noctilucent, noctambulant, nocebo, neap, napiform, nacelle, node and 95 more...
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winds of the world
local wind names
chinook, foehn, gallego, sirocco, harmattan, fremantle doctor, tramontane, mistral, santa ana, diablo, descuernacabras, dust devil and 119 more...
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AbraxasZugzwang's Words
atavism, abraxas, sisyphean, frust, fetus-in-fetu, arhythmically, queef, epidemiology, abecedarian, troglodyte, chiaroscuro, philology and 631 more...
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When I'm Feeling Windy
wiiiiiiiind
sirocco, zephyr, fiat, tramontana, typhoon, cyclone, hurricane, haboob, khamsin, aajej, africo, alm and 125 more...
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Evin290's Words
puerile, fastidious, blatherskite, folderol, femtosecond, redox, incarnadine, cerulean, genuflection, muslin, multitudinous, miasma and 517 more...
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Whether the Weather
Should I bring an umbrella?
hurricane, tsunami, fog, tornado, thunderstorm, cyclone, blizzard, drizzle, hail, snow, sleet, graupel and 37 more...
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Wild Weather
anabatic wind, stratiform, fractostratus, frazil slush, isodrosotherm, mammatus clouds, macroburst, nimbostratus, ribbon lightning, staccato lightning, subtropical jet, suction vortex and 76 more...
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pinkmerengue's Words
impecunious, hoyden, effete, wrangle, vertiginous, obfuscate, elegiac, crepuscular, corporeal, liminal, perfidious, runcible and 33 more...
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Weather
With so many weather words, there must be some good ones!
lenticular, squall, lake-effect, cirrostratus, monsoon, anticyclone, wind shear, cumulonimbus, anemometer, trough, supercell, cryology and 15 more...
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from
these words are permanently linked in my mind with a particular context, or are made-up words from books and the like. e.g. esteekers is from a kids' book called Sahara Special.
apostasy, esteekers, rueful, scrooch, hegemony, slinkster, pudge, bufrido, grep, qwghlm, praxis, crux and 30 more...
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The Mariner's Record
quay, gunwale, bosun, starboard, larboard, by and large, offing, scuttle, scuttlebutt, longshoreman, sextant, windfall and 54 more...
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Live list: "In the wake of the Half M...
Live from Hunter College!
2030, urban biosphere, urban environment..., case-study driven..., miasmic theory of..., bacteriological t..., Environmental Jus..., environmental racism, Mannahatta, megacity, Collect Pond, Gramercy and 19 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for nor'easter.
ecbrenner "This colloquialism denotes a storm that brings high winds and rain or snow to the upper Atlantic Coast. The storm is so named because although the cyclonic storm itself moves northeasterly up the coast, the inland winds on its west side blow from out of the northeast.
"While the folksy pronunciation might evoke images of a Yankee seafarer in some, the contracted term is neither authentic nor accurate. New Englanders tend to drop their 'r' sounds and are more likely to pronounce 'northeaster' as /naw-THEES-tuh/. As Boston Globe wordsmith Jan Freeman noted, 'The facts, however, have not slowed the advance of "nor'easter." Even in print, where it's probably less common than in speech, it has practically routed "northeaster" in the past quarter-century or so. . . . It would take a mighty wind, at this point, to blow "nor'easter" back into oblivion.'" --Garner's Modern American Usage
And this New Englander finds herself pronouncing it /naw-EES-tuh/. Sep 9, 2009
reesetee Neat word. Not nice to be in one, though. Make sure you gluppit the prawling strangles, you hear? Sep 26, 2008
chained_bear What is raging right outside my window right now. Sep 26, 2008