WEATHER-BEATEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does weather-beaten mean? 

• WEATHER-BEATEN (adjective)
  The adjective WEATHER-BEATEN has 2 senses:

1. tanned and coarsened from being outdoors

2. worn by exposure to the weather

  Familiarity information: WEATHER-BEATEN used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEATHER-BEATEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tanned and coarsened from being outdoors

Context example:

a weather-beaten face

Similar:

tough; toughened (physically toughened)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Worn by exposure to the weather

Synonyms:

weather-beaten; weathered; weatherworn

Context example:

a house of weathered shingles

Similar:

worn (affected by wear; damaged by long use)

 Context examples 

“Sir,” said he, with tears starting to his weather-beaten face, which, with his trembling lips, was ashy pale, “will you come over yonder?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Presently I stood within that clean, bright kitchen—on the very hearth—trembling, sickening; conscious of an aspect in the last degree ghastly, wild, and weather-beaten.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In person he was a thick-set, burly man with a shock of grizzled hair, a brown, weather-beaten face, and blue eyes which were keen to the verge of fierceness.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When at last a dip of the road hid it from his view, he cocked his steel cap, shrugged his broad shoulders, and rode on with laughter in his eyes, and his weather-beaten face all ashine with pleasant memories.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My father, in his blunt, sailor fashion, tried to stammer out some commonplace condolence, but her eyes swept past his rude, weather-beaten face to ask and reask what effect she had made upon me.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She had bright dark eyes, good teeth, and altogether an agreeable face; though her reddened and weather-beaten complexion, the consequence of her having been almost as much at sea as her husband, made her seem to have lived some years longer in the world than her real eight-and-thirty.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Here Meg meant to have a fountain, shrubbery, and a profusion of lovely flowers, though just at present the fountain was represented by a weather-beaten urn, very like a dilapidated slopbowl, the shrubbery consisted of several young larches, undecided whether to live or die, and the profusion of flowers was merely hinted by regiments of sticks to show where seeds were planted.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I was still looking at them, and also at intervals examining the teachers—none of whom precisely pleased me; for the stout one was a little coarse, the dark one not a little fierce, the foreigner harsh and grotesque, and Miss Miller, poor thing! looked purple, weather-beaten, and over-worked—when, as my eye wandered from face to face, the whole school rose simultaneously, as if moved by a common spring.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There were some jovial faces amongst them, but the older officers, with their deep-lined cheeks and their masterful noses, were, for the most part, as austere as so many weather-beaten ascetics from the desert.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The one who led was a man between fifty and sixty years of age, war-worn and weather-beaten, with a broad, thoughtful forehead and eyes which shone brightly from under his fierce and overhung brows.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)