cold

COLD + NOUN

cold weather

• More cold weather is expected later this week.

a cold night/day

• It was a cold night with a starlit sky.

a cold winter

• A cold winter will increase oil consumption.

a cold wind

• A cold wind was blowing from the north.

a cold spell (=a period of cold weather, especially a short one)

• We’re currently going through a bit of a cold spell.

a cold snap (=a short period of very cold weather)

• There had been a sudden cold snap just after Christmas.

ADVERBS

freezing/icy cold

• Take your gloves – it’s freezing cold out there.

bitterly cold (=very cold)

• The winter of 1921 was bitterly cold.

unusually/exceptionally cold

• a period of unusually cold weather

quite/pretty cold

• It’s going to be quite cold today.

cold out/outside

VERBS

become cold (also get cold informal)

• In my country, it never really gets cold.

turn/grow cold (=become cold, especially suddenly)

• The birds fly south before the weather turns cold.