Definitions for Frost

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Frost frost

Spelling: [frawst, frost]

IPA: /frɔst, frɒst/

Frost is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in Frost (forst).

Definitions for Frost

noun

1. a degree or state of coldness sufficient to cause the freezing of water.
2. Also called hoarfrost. a covering of minute ice needles, formed from the atmosphere at night upon the ground and exposed objects when they have cooled by radiation below the dew point, and when the dew point is below the freezing point.
3. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, formed on the walls or contents of a freezer by the condensation of water vapor; rime.
4. the act or process of freezing.
5. coldness of manner or temperament:
6. Informal. a coolness between persons.
7. Informal. something that meets with lack of enthusiasm, as a theatrical performance or party; failure; flop.
8. a milk shake, frappe, or similar drink:
9. Robert (Lee) 1874–1963, U.S. poet.

Idioms

1. degree of frost, British. the degree of temperature Fahrenheit below the freezing point:

verb (used with object)

1. to cover with frost.
2. to give a frostlike surface to (glass, metal, etc.).
3. to ice (a cake, cookies, etc.).
4. to bleach selected strands of (a person's hair) in order to create highlights.
5. to kill or injure by frost:
6. to make angry:

verb (used without object)

1. to become covered with frost or freeze (often followed by up or over):
2. (of varnish, paint, etc.) to dry with a film resembling frost.

Origin of Frost

before 900; Middle English, Old English frost, forst; cognate with Old Saxon, Old High German, Old Norse frost; akin to freeze

Examples for Frost

frost: We slept together the night before the wedding—non-sexually.

At length the frost and snow really did come, and the Chickadees were in a woeful case.

"You will find that you are up against a hell of a frost," she would declare, brutally.

That is why we feel that expensive Arctic feasts would probably be a frost.

The tents that had whitened the plain were gone like a frost before the sun.

And in five subsequent rides, frost stayed on the bull twice more, and Red Rock threw him three times.

The winter has been trying; there is rain one day, frost the next.

frost would just walk back and forth in front of the fireplace and talk and talk and talk.

You'd put a scarf across your nose and mouth and when you breathed through it, it would get all white with frost.

He could recite reams of frost, Dickinson, Whitman, and Lowell, and he did so while I stood there, amazed.