noun
a personification of frost or winter weather
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑imaginary being, ↑imaginary creature
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nounUsage: usually capitalized J&F
: frost or frosty weather personified
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frost or freezing cold personified.
[1815-25]
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Jack Frost noun
Frost or freezing weather personified
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Main Entry: ↑jack
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Jack Frost UK US noun
an imaginary person who brings the frost (=ice on the ground or on a window) and represents winter
Thesaurus: characters in storieshyponym
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Jack Frost,
frost or freezing weather thought of as a person.
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n. a personification of frost
the seedlings battled with Jack Frost
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noun
— used as a way to refer to frost or cold weather
Jack Frost may arrive early this year.
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↑frost, considered as a person
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Jack Frost was threatening to kill the new plants.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.