Usually means: Cold temperatures form ice crystals.
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We found 56 dictionaries that define the word frost:

General (35 matching dictionaries)
  1. Frost, frost: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. frost: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. frost: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. frost: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Frost, frost: Vocabulary.com
  6. Frost, frost: Wordnik
  7. frost: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. frost: Wiktionary
  9. frost: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. frost: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. frost: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. frost: Dictionary.com
  13. frost: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. frost: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Frost (Australian band), Frost (Monofader album), Frost (Mortal Kombat), Frost (Mortal Kombat character), Frost (Norwegian band), Frost (album), Frost (band), Frost (collection), Frost (comics), Frost (disambiguation), Frost (film), Frost (novel), Frost (rapper), Frost (surname), Frost (temperature), Frost, The Frost: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Frost: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. frost: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Frost: Rhymezone
  19. Frost (m), frost: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. frost: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. FROST: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Frost: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. frost: Free Dictionary
  24. frost: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Frost, frost: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. Frost: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. frost: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  28. Frost: Wiktionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technopedia (No longer online)
  2. frost: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. frost: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. FROST: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. frost: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Frost: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. frost, frost: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. frost, the frost: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  4. frost: Coin Collecting
  5. FROST: Power Engineering
  6. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
noun:  The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.
noun:  (figurative) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
noun:  (obsolete) The act of freezing; the congelation of water or other liquid.
noun:  A shade of white, like that of frost.
noun:  (slang, dated) A disappointment; a cheat.
noun:  (television) A kind of light diffuser.
verb:  (transitive) To cover with frost.
verb:  (intransitive) To become covered with frost.
verb:  (transitive) To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To anger or annoy.
verb:  (transitive) To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice.
verb:  (transitive) To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  An unincorporated community in Livingston Parish, Louisiana.
noun:  A township in Clare County, Michigan.
noun:  A minor city in Faribault County, Minnesota.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Athens County, Ohio.
noun:  A minor city in Navarro County, Texas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia.

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