the cold

noun

: cold weather

The cold really sets in around late November and doesn't let up until April.

I stood there shivering in the cold.

Come in out of the cold.

Examples of the cold in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

If the winds blow from the south or southwest, the South Coast and Cape Cod get the cold, ocean air. —Terry Eliasen, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026

This was caused by herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), also known as the cold sore virus, the outlet stated. —Adam England, PEOPLE, 13 Apr. 2026

Hitting the sweet spot between floor-grazing baggy jeans and calves-baring capris, a subtly cropped pair of jeans shows off your shoes without leaving too much in the cold. —Emily Kelleher, InStyle, 12 Apr. 2026

Since refrigerating people wasn’t a viable treatment, Welsh and the CF Foundation needed chemists to create a small molecule that could replicate what happened in the cold. —Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026

Rhymes for the cold

• ahold
• behold
• billfold
• blindfold
• cajoled
• consoled
• controlled
• cotswold
• eightfold
• enfold
• enrolled
• extolled